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...studies of human DNA, which have until now focused mainly on European and Asian genomes. The variations described in the Nature paper should greatly aid scientists' quest to understand which genes increase susceptibility to disease or influence a patient's response to certain medications. The study of the latter phenomenon - known as pharmacogenomics - has thus far excluded southern Africans, who have not only been poorly represented in clinical drug trials but also, in many cases, fail to respond optimally to crucial medications for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, two major scourges of the continent. "We can now be more inclusive rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Secrets Lie in Archbishop Tutu's Genome? | 2/18/2010 | See Source »

...matter how many critics bash this movie, chances are that hordes of romantics are still going to go see it, even if “Love, Actually” is ten times better.  Though the latter film has as big an ensemble cast, it somehow manages to connect to a viewer, likely because the movie’s plot does not unfold over such a limited time-span...

Author: By David G. Sklar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Valentine's Day | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

...site - they either stared blankly or skipped ahead. It seems that the only way to get anyone to stop their endless scroll is to either a) be female (in my unscientific test, about 85% of the people on ChatRoulette were male) or b) be ridiculous. The latter explains my gas-mask friend, faux Hitler and people posing as cast members from Jersey Shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ChatRoulette: The Perils of Video Chats with Strangers | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...can’t repeat it,” joked Harvard coach Tommy Amaker of his halftime speech. “I wasn’t pleased with the latter part of the first half and how we played...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Fiery Speech Sparks Second-Half Rally | 2/16/2010 | See Source »

...projections over the past few years about how warming temperatures and a changing climate will affect the planet. Real-world measurements have confirmed at least some of them: sea level is clearly rising, for instance, and the ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking and thinning - in the latter case, faster than anyone had expected just a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Climate Shift the Biology of Ecosystems? | 2/14/2010 | See Source »

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