Genetics Is Giving Way to a New Science of Life
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Test your understanding of the living world with this simple question. What kind of biomolecule is found in all living organisms? If your answer is “DNA”, you are incorrect. The...
View ArticleThe Great DNA Data Deficit: Are Genes for Disease a Mirage?
Just before his appointment as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, the most prominent medical geneticist of our time, had his own genome scanned for disease...
View Article‘Phantom Heritability’ Indicates Poor Predictive Value of Gene Tests
Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK (photo credit: jurvetson) Last week, a paper on “phantom heritability” was published by a research group led by Eric Lander, one of the leading contributors to understanding...
View ArticleBiology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Book Author: Richard Lewontin Reviewed by: Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Biologists know that complex traits are typically associated with genetic variation between individuals....
View ArticleScience and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
By Jonathan Latham, PhD (Originally posted July 31st and lost after a DDOS (electronic) attack). Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or...
View ArticleStill Chasing Ghosts: A New Genetic Methodology Will Not Find the “Missing...
By Evan Charney, Duke Institute for Brain Science, Duke University One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis, and...
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