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So we're now making several dozen different constructs, because we can vary the cassettes and the genes that go into this artificial chromosome.
To understand the role of these genes is going to be well within reach.
And over the past 35 years, I've studied behavior on the basis of everything from genes through neurotransmitters, dopamine, things like that, all the way through circuit analysis.
So we've been looking at this: the interaction of genes, what's called epigenetic effects, brain damage, and environment, and how these are tied together.
A key thing is that the major violence genes, it's called the MAO-A gene.
Well what the problem is this tends to concentrate these genes.
One possibility is that the genes and health of Eastern European Jews were affected not simply by geography but also by historical and cultural factors.
So heterozygote advantage can help explain why problematic versions of genes persist at high frequencies in certain populations.
Success is measured not by how healthy an individual is, or by how long she lives, but by how many copies of her genes she passes to the next generation.
The mutation's detrimental effects usually don't appear until after the typical age of reproduction, when affected individuals have already passed on their genes.
More importantly, though, the experience of learning about my own genes taught me to think differently about health in the long run, and I hope sharing my story inspires you to do the same.
I mean, why don't we talk about, well, there's chromosomes, and there's genes.
Science and technology can give us an important advantage in the battle of human wits versus the genes of superbugs, a battle we can win.
In the body, the protein spikes embed in the host’s cells and fuse with them— enabling the virus to hijack the host cell’s machinery to replicate its own genes.
Coronaviruses store their genes on RNA.
RNA viruses tend to be smaller, with fewer genes, meaning they infect many hosts and replicate quickly in those hosts.
They’re some of the largest, meaning they have the most genes.
And this is increasingly peculiar, because about 20 years ago, when they started delving into the genome, they thought it would probably contain around 100,000 genes.
We now think there are likely to be only just over 20,000 genes in the human genome.
When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there's evidence that a given percentage of our political opinions are genetically inherited, but they don't explain how genes cause opinions, they've settled nothing.
Well, Sarah thought a little bit more about my work and said, "Genes."
"He models genes."
And if you can make yourself symmetrical, you're sending out a sign that you've got good genes, you've got a good upbringing and therefore you'll make a good mate.
And the basic idea of kin selection is that, if an animal feels compassion for a close relative, and this compassion leads the animal to help the relative, then, in the end, the compassion actually winds up helping the genes underlying the compassion itself.
I don't quite mean that the golden rule itself is written in our genes, but you can go to a hunter gatherer society that has had no exposure to any of the great religious traditions, no exposure to ethical philosophy, and you'll find, if you spend time with these people, that, basically, they believe that one good turn deserves another, and that bad deeds should be punished.
And evolutionary psychologists think that these intuitions have a basis in the genes.
What's interesting is that at the same time, the number of genes that we're discovering is rising very quickly.
Each one of these genes has potential diagnostic test.
Something called the Danish Twin Study established that only about 10 percent of how long the average person lives, within certain biological limits, is dictated by our genes.
See, when we were dealing with our biology, bacteria, the genes, the things inside here, the blood?
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