Genetics
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I want to tell you a short story about a discovery we recently made about the
genetics
of schizophrenia.
This is math, and this is science, this is
genetics.
So now with science, with archaeology, with anthropology, with genetics, what we're doing is, we're giving a voice to the voiceless.
I love this video because it shows the power of plant
genetics
to help farmers.
What scares me most about the loud arguments and misinformation about plant
genetics
is that the poorest people who most need the technology may be denied access because of the vague fears and prejudices of those who have enough to eat.
Since our own sex is determined by genes, and we do know of these other animals that have their sex determined by genes, it's easy to assume that for all animals the sex of their babies still must be determined by
genetics.
So for some species, the question of boy or girl is answered by
genetics.
These days, scientists know a lot more about
genetics
and heredity.
Now, personally I've seen a lot of this struggle with data myself, because I work in computational genetics, which is also a field where lots of very smart people are using unimaginable amounts of data to make pretty serious decisions like deciding on a cancer therapy or developing a drug.
Another piece of his purely theoretical work became known as the Hardy-Weinberg law in genetics, and won a Nobel prize.
Who can we sue?" (Laughter) Now Chris is a really brilliant lawyer, but he knew almost nothing about patent law and certainly nothing about
genetics.
I knew something about genetics, but I wasn't even a lawyer, let alone a patent lawyer.
A cardiologist developed this drug without regard to race or genetics, but it became convenient for commercial reasons to market the drug to black patients.
With chronic malnutrition being the norm for most of human history,
genetics
evolved to favor fat storage.
In biology right now, we are on the very verge of being able to control our own genetics, what the genes in our own bodies are doing, and certainly, eventually, our own evolution.
That's because getting only red-eyed mosquitos violates a rule that is the absolute cornerstone of biology, Mendelian
genetics.
I've looked at adultery in 42 cultures, I understand, actually, some of the
genetics
of it, and some of the brain circuitry of it.
And all of a sudden, what we're doing is we've got this multidimensional chess board where we can change human
genetics
by using viruses to attack things like AIDS, or we can change the gene code through gene therapy to do away with some hereditary diseases, or we can change the environment, and change the expression of those genes in the epigenome and pass that on to the next generations.
I'm a stem cell and
genetics
researcher and I can see this new CRISPR technology and its potential impact.
We know from Darwin, if we go back two centuries, that evolution and
genetics
profoundly have impacted humanity, who we are today.
As geneticists would like you to think, perhaps the mother had the "bad mother" gene that caused her pups to be stressful, and then it was passed from generation to generation; it's all determined by
genetics.
And so you have, in spite of the deterministic nature of genetics, you have control of the way your genes look, and this has a tremendous optimistic message for the ability to now encounter some of the deadly diseases like cancer, mental health, with a new approach, looking at them as maladaptation.
But few cited other known causes of mental illness, like genetics, socioeconomic status, war, conflict or the loss of a loved one.
And
genetics
play a huge role in social anxiety.
In this brain region, factors as varied as
genetics
and social trauma may create abnormalities and trigger the symptoms of bipolar disorder.
The condition tends to run in families, so we do know that
genetics
have a lot to do with it.
What's different is that we have enormously more information about
genetics
than we had then, and therefore more ability to use that information to affect these biological controls.
We were asking: What are some of the unintended consequences of linking our
genetics
to health care?
In bringing such a future to life, what was important to us was that people could actually touch, see and feel its potential, because such an immediate and close encounter provokes people to ask the right questions, questions like: What are the implications of living in a world where I'm judged on my
genetics?
It's because human
genetics
has taught us that when it comes to our telomerase, we humans live on a knife edge.
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