genetics

A new study of the genetic origins of dyslexia and other learning disabilities could allow for earlier diagnoses and more successful interventions, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Many students now are not diagnosed until high school, at which point treatments are less...

How significant are genetics in the development of competitive fighters? Can elite performance be achieved through just hard training, or does it require more? What do you think separates top-level competitors from everyone else?

Researchers from the Universities of Nottingham and Leicester are leading the largest ever study of the genetics relating to lung disease. The project will investigate what determines an individual's lung health and why smoking harms the lungs of some people more than others and will use health...

Patients see potential benefits from direct-to-consumer genetic testing, but are also concerned about how the test results will be used, and generally are unwilling to pay more than $10 or $20 for them, according to focus groups conducted by researchers at Loyola University Chicago Stritch...

I am a bit angry that I can't afford the books I really want to read due to lack of money (considering that I am still in highschool and don't have a job) nor can I download them for free. So if anyone knows a good book explaining the human evolution, or with biology related topics, that I CAN...

A test cross was carried out to determine whether two genes, P and Z, are linked. The purple flowers allele, P, is dominant over white flowers, p. High starch, H, is dominant over low starch, h. A heterozygous F1 individual was crossed to a homozygous recessive tester genotype. The phenotypes...

...class.? I am a student who needs a current topic with some level of difficulty, not basic stuff. Anything from DNA cloning procedures, making DNA constructions to mutations. The trouble is I need to link the topics to something in everyday life, like forensics...but that's too easy..I think...

Chromosomal microarray (CMA) a powerful test for diagnosing the genetic abnormalities causing some types of developmental delay and birth defects can be used in an evidence-based manner to provide important information for patient treatment, according to a pair of studies in the September issue...

...booty back!lol? i know that big booties are in your genetics there fore you either got it or you don't. there is no being lazy and eating unhealthy nonsense or what ever. i know there are exercises to make it rounder. I dnt know how to get my butt back. I use to be a gymnast but always kept...

Uterine leiomyomas, also called fibroids, cause a very significant burden to women's health. They are benign tumors that occur in 60% of women by the age of 45 years and cause symptoms such as abdominal pain and discomfort, and abnormal bleeding in about half of the cases. Fibroids are also an...

Is there any existence of mutant or accelerately evoluted people?? I meant is the long term process of evolution can be done in very short time like diffrence of generation? Can a normal parents give birth of mutant child?

Hey, Like everyone else over weight... as a new years resolution i told my self i would lose weight... and I have, I've lost 31lbs but thats not enough. when I started i weighed roughly 243lbs now I am 212lbs, My goal is to be in the 180's by January so that I can put on massive amounts of...

I am not gay I know i am 100 percent straight. Recently i became curious to gay porn and I get a response. I get aroused by i don't even think it just happens. I find it disgusting and wrong. How can I be acting like this. I can't even be straight without thinking about this. 5 months this has...

I am awful at figuring out how the colors work when breeding rabbits, so if anyone could help me that would be great! I tried to do some research to figure it out, but my buck barely has any color, so I didn't really know... I have had a mini rex buck for about a year, he is a charlie, only his...

My parents are 5'9 (mom) 5'8 (dad) I'm almost 18 and 6'1, half hispanic half white I ate pretty much fast food junk food etc. as a kid I'm not out of shape or overweight, 150 lbs, but I'm just wondering if everyone says height is genetics why am I taller than my parents? If everyone says it's...

Bedbugs (Insects of the Cimicidae family, commonly Cimex lectularius) are annoying, might carry diseases (though this is unclear, so probably nothing importat1, and are apparently becoming more common in the US. Interestingly, there has been very little study done of their genetics. A new...

I'm writing a lab report for my expiremental biology class and my teacher has us write a connection paragraph. "Your Connection section should be based in the area of genetics since that is the unit of study. Start there and then branch of to other areas of biology for more sophistication " I...

23andMe has launched a project funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) which is aimed at validating 23andMe's highly-scalable platform for pharmacogenomics research. The company received $190,000 in stimulus funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for "Web-based...

Signal Genetics, the parent company of Myeloma Health, a privately held predictive genetic testing company focused on oncology, today announced the launch of their revolutionary molecular test for individuals diagnosed with multiple myeloma, MyPRS™. The official launch of MyPRS™ will take place...

When grow up, does the overall and final height is based on nutrition or genetics? Can a person with tall parents who give birth to a child what have poor eating habits grew up short (final height). What about vice-versa; short parents but well fed child can be tall? and of course maybe its...