This from the comment "More right winged nonsense about how the market will save us." I don't think that's what I wrote at all. I mentioned nothing about "the market," and I don't believe in some magical group of special people to whom I can trust to intuit my vague complaints and solve them satisfactorily.
I do believe that statements like "[somebody] should fix [problem]" are self-aggrandizing noise unless that [somebody] is a name of somebody specific ---best, your name. The "the government" or "the market" are not specific people to whom one can appeal and expect a human response, and I consider the name of the current president as an alias for "the government."
So, I think I, Andrew Yates, should fix this problem, and I hope others will declare their intentions, too.
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From "GenevaRam" in the comments: "This insider-love has been going on forever. It's only because of the transparency of the Web (and those willing to do a little digging, like ValleyWag), that means us peons get to see it."
"While the genetic link was statistically significant, it was weak – 55% of the transsexuals had the long version of the gene, compared with 50% of normal men. Harley agrees that many more genes related to male-to-female transsexualism probably remain to be discovered."
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"The challenge is to see that we don't also unleash the demons of discrimination and oppression. Although I acknowledge the risks, I believe that we can and will incorporate gene technology into the ongoing human adventure."
I wish that Ronald would have started with this positive assertion rather than regaling nightmare scenarios. I yearn for the day that genomics can be discussed without an obligatory mention of Nazi Germany. That people cannot differentiate between positively eliminating disease and creating happier, healthier people and rounding up millions of an ethnic group for murder is... intellectually painful.
What is so delicious, so succulent about Nazis? Is it impossible to cook up some opinion piece without adding a dash of Nazi? Godwin's law forever, apparently.
"There are 1.8 million probes on the latest Affymetrix chip, although for now, Navigenics extracts information from just a few dozen of them. Among the first 18 conditions for which Navigenics provides personalized information are Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, and diabetes."
Interesting, though I thought that they were using the 1MM Affy chip.
This from the comment "More right winged nonsense about how the market will save us." I don't think that's what I wrote at all. I mentioned nothing about "the market," and I don't believe in some magical group of special people to whom I can trust to intuit my vague complaints and solve them satisfactorily.
I do believe that statements like "[somebody] should fix [problem]" are self-aggrandizing noise unless that [somebody] is a name of somebody specific ---best, your name. The "the government" or "the market" are not specific people to whom one can appeal and expect a human response, and I consider the name of the current president as an alias for "the government."
So, I think I, Andrew Yates, should fix this problem, and I hope others will declare their intentions, too.
Important: medical genomic testing is NOT genealogy.
Mark,
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From "GenevaRam" in the comments: "This insider-love has been going on forever. It's only because of the transparency of the Web (and those willing to do a little digging, like ValleyWag), that means us peons get to see it."
"While the genetic link was statistically significant, it was weak – 55% of the transsexuals had the long version of the gene, compared with 50% of normal men. Harley agrees that many more genes related to male-to-female transsexualism probably remain to be discovered."
Not yet, Josh.
Good discussion on this at OvercomingBias.com: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/10/behold-our-ance.html
rhtayolor, when exactly does a cell become a human? Does that cell then have American citizenship, for example?
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I think you're going to have a hard time convincing people to write about this regularly who don't already write about such a niche topic.
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I wonder how long until this appears in Scientific Match and other online dating sites?
This is ridiculous. In fact, my mother thought of this same idea.
Will check it out, thanks John.
JOSH'S FIRST PAPER WOOOO
Is "mamivirus" a typo, or is that clever way of describing an infection of both "mama" and "mimi?"
What do you have in mind for building a community?
This is the guy Penn and Teller called the "greatest living person" by lives saved, right?
On a macro level, too, randomness is vial to biology. Think: genetic drift.
This isn't Reddit, Kevin... haha
It works fine for me. It looks like blood squirting out of an artery which stops after a brief application of the gauze.
How long until artificial vision is better than our natural eyes?
"The challenge is to see that we don't also unleash the demons of discrimination and oppression. Although I acknowledge the risks, I believe that we can and will incorporate gene technology into the ongoing human adventure."
I wish that Ronald would have started with this positive assertion rather than regaling nightmare scenarios. I yearn for the day that genomics can be discussed without an obligatory mention of Nazi Germany. That people cannot differentiate between positively eliminating disease and creating happier, healthier people and rounding up millions of an ethnic group for murder is... intellectually painful.
What is so delicious, so succulent about Nazis? Is it impossible to cook up some opinion piece without adding a dash of Nazi? Godwin's law forever, apparently.
If you are hated in Iceland, I will be visiting deCODE on Tuesday, so I will ask them for you. ^_~
"There are 1.8 million probes on the latest Affymetrix chip, although for now, Navigenics extracts information from just a few dozen of them. Among the first 18 conditions for which Navigenics provides personalized information are Alzheimer’s disease, obesity, and diabetes."
Interesting, though I thought that they were using the 1MM Affy chip.
There are more tutorials on their main page at http://www.openhelix.com/
Personally, I think that the tutorials are too disorganized to be useful, but maybe others have different learning styles.
I just registered. Thanks, kevin.