warrior gene
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Filozofálás
I found the article titled “The ‘Warrior Gene’ and the Maori People: the Responsibility of the Geneticists” a while ago, examining the responsibility of scientists in misinterpreting scientific results. The ‘gene of’ is a teleosemantic expression that conveys a simplistic and linear relationship between a gene and a phenotype. Throughout the 20th century, geneticists studied [...]
Tags: bioethics, genetics, maori, science, scientific method, warrior gene
systems genetics
Posted by razor | Filed under Biotech, English
A new short perspective article in Science caught my eye yesterday, the title is ‘Systems Genetics‘ and the summary sez: From studies with peas over 150 years ago, Gregor Mendel deduced the laws that govern the inheritance of traits in most organisms. The brilliance, but also the limitation, of Mendel’s work was its focus on [...]
Tags: genetics, systems biology, systems genetics
link and video dump
Posted by razor | Filed under English, Linkdump
Cleaning out various link collections, notes, txt files, bookmarks, etc. Open Researcher Contributor Identification Initiative: an open and independent community effort to standardize researcher identification. DIY Bio: A Growing Movement Takes on Aging: H+ Magazine reports on the DIYbio movement. Outlaw Biology at UCLA Symposium: DIYbio blog on the Outlaw Biology symposium at UCLA. Craig [...]
Tags: dataviz, design, diybio, genetics, orcid, synthbio, tedmed
