Humans Still Evolving, Large-Scale Study of Genetic Data Shows
In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers have found that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are…
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Common Antiseptic Ingredients De-Energize Cells and Impair Hormone Response
A new in-vitro study by University of California, Davis, researchers indicates that quaternary ammonium compounds, or “quats,” used as antimicrobial agents in common household products inhibit mitochondria, the powerhouses of…
Study Reveals White Nationalists’ Reactions When Genetics Test Results Challenge Their Identity
A new study by UCLA researchers reveals the range of reactions — from rejection to reinterpretation to acceptance — after white nationalists learn that DNA ancestry test results indicate they…
2017 | Aaron Panofsky, et al – When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic Ancestry Testing among White Nationalists
Aaron Panofsky, ISG faculty, and Joan Donovan, former ISG postdoctoral fellow now at Data & Society Research Institute, have published a paper titled “When Genetics Challenges a Racist’s Identity: Genetic Ancestry…
Once Invincible Superbug Squashed by ‘Superteam’ of Antibiotics
The golden age of antibiotics may be drawing to a close. The recent discovery of E. coli carrying mcr-1 and ndm-5 — genes that make the bacterium immune to last-resort…
How The Genome Sets its Functional Micro-Architecture
The genes that are involved in the development of the fetus are activated in different tissues and at different times. Their expression is carefully regulated by so-called “enhancer sequences”, which…