Tag: genetics
Genetics may predict a child’s reading ability
A London study has used a genetic scoring technique to predict reading performance throughout school years from DNA alone.
A single protein may be at the root of autism
Researchers are closer than ever to finding a cure for Fragile X syndrome, a leading cause of autism. A single protein may hold the key.
Head injury can lead to genetic changes in brain
A traumatic brain injury could alter master genes and increase your risk of developing certain brain diseases, like ADHD, Alzheimer's, and autism.
Math could help us understand our bodies, disease
Scientists from Berkeley and Mich. develop a model from a math perspective for how genes are expressed in different cells at different stages.
Puppy mills don’t produce the best pets
Do you have a pet? If so, do you know how that pet came into the world? Was it in a humane way or did it need to be rescued?
Do genes predict how we use social media?
How we interact with social networks—look at info that reinforces or confronts our own viewpoint—may depend on our genes.
Parents obese? You might be slow.
Children of obese parents are more likely to fail tests of fine motor skills and personal-social skills than those of normal-weight parents.
Mutations in ‘essential’ genes linked to autism
Mutations in those genes that are essential to life have been linked to autism in a huge review of family data in a few huge databases. From U.Penn.
One little mutation can mean so much
How did unicellular organisms become multicellular? It could come down to a single mutation 600 million years ago in their DNA.
Teenage acne sufferers may, in fact, age better
Teens need not fret too much over a condition of acne: Sufferers may have the last laugh as they get older, new research out of the UK has concluded.