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...though anthropologists of even the most humanist bent can't afford to ignore the precipitous pace of discovery among geneticists, neither can any search for an integrated picture of the past rely on molecular anthropology alone. "Genetics tells us about the travels of human genes - the boy-meets-girl of the story," says Marek Zvelebil, an archaeologist at the University of Sheffield. "But gene exchange is different from language or cultural exchange. Who are we in the long term? There are at least three identities - genetic, linguistic and cultural - and we're all a mix of these...
Cohen is a chemistry and physics concentrator and spent the last few years working in chemistry Professor George M. Whitesides' lab. He studied the effect of molecular structure on electrical properties, but plans to do other research in graduate school...
According to Lee M. Silver, a professor of molecular biology at Princeton, the capability to clone and genetically engineer humans is closer ever...
Jonathan King, professor of molecular biology at MIT, said that although leaders in Europe have begun to discuss issues of patenting genes, the United States...
...current thinking in molecular genetics, and why the field is hyped-up these days, is if these genes can be identified, they can lead us to the mechanisms of the disease," Weatherall said...