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...fact that uncovering the genetic roots of depression - and most diseases, for that matter - is a complex task. "We have about 30,000 genes, and it is hard to pick just one and analyze it," says Dr. Hans Joergen Grabe of Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald in Stralsund, Germany. Although his 2005 study also found a correlation between the 5-HTTLPR gene and depression among the unemployed, "the magnitude of the effect is very small - if the effect does really exist, it will only produce depression in very rare cases, about 5 or 10 out of 1,000." Grabe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Study: 'Depression Gene' Doesn't Predict the Blues | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

...also examines the Kremlin's repeated use of its ample energy resources to threaten its Western-oriented neighbors. Most troubling is what Lucas calls "pipeline politics" - Moscow's plans to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from the Shtokman Field in the Barents Sea to the German city of Greifswald; and its attempts to derail Western plans to install a pipeline connecting the Caspian Sea and Baumgarten, Austria. That project, the Nabucco pipeline, would circumvent Russia by bisecting Turkey, and would give Russia's neighbors far more bargaining power when negotiating with Gazprom, the state-run gas company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chill Out: The New Cold War | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

Though he had planned to follow in family tradition and become a doctor after receiving a medicine degree from the University of Greifswald in 1925, a desire to travel led him to abandon medicine, according to a Harvard News Office press release. He then completed a doctorate in Biology at the University of Berlin just 16 months later...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: In Memoriam | 4/8/2005 | See Source »

Though he had planned to follow in family tradition and become a doctor after receiving a medicine degree from the University of Greifswald in 1925, a desire to travel led him to abandon medicine, according to a Harvard News Office press release. He then completed a doctorate in Biology at the University of Berlin just 16 months later...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pioneer Biologist Ernst Mayr Dies | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

...systematic torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners are a horrible disgrace for me as an American. Had Bush really wanted to know what was going on in Saddam Hussein's former torture chambers, he could have found out. Patrick Bednarski Greifswald, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 6/21/2004 | See Source »

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