The Book of Me, 2nd Edition (Autobiographical Journal)

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In only slightly different form, the calmodulin gene that makes a paramecium seek food and evade danger in a pond still plays a similar role in helping to regulate human mental functions.

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They could identify some alleles—variations of particular genes—and tell me a little bit about the risks, predispositions, and susceptibilities I had inherited.It’s like one of those sci-fi stories where the crucial message is sent back to someone in the past who lacks the future context necessary to interpret it. In addition, where our elected officials are now at war with science, the BGI is funded handsomely by the Chinese government, including support for such popular projects as sequencing the giant-panda genome and the rice genome.

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He responds by asking me why I’m not eating any of the delicious Afghani meat dishes spread in front of us. If you could know whether you're going to contract Alzheimer's, or if you're likely to battle cancer or die of heart disease, would you want to?Last summer Richard Powers decided he did and became one of nine people on earth to have his entire genome sequenced.

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Page one means what it means only because we already know that page 300 is going to change it forever.Contents: Introduction, The Facts of Life, My Life: A Personal History, All in the Family, All About Me, The Inner Me, What Next? million ways, from single points to insertions and deletions to differences in the number of copies of a gene. But given the explosion of genetic discoveries, it is also a commodity guaranteed to soar in value in the run of time.