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Category Archives: Genetics

Personality, Genes, And Longevity

February 28, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

Some of my writer friends build their characters based on personality types. Whether they choose to set two characters on opposite ends of the Meyers-Briggs evaluation, or pit type A […]

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Culture and Society, Genetics

Clone Your Best Friend?

November 14, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

We love our pet’s quirks and habits: Fiesty the cat likes to rest on top of the printer where its warm, but her weak stomach sometimes makes her barf into it. […]

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Biology, Genetics, Immortality

Theories of Aging- This Cell Will Self-Destruct…

July 18, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

In an earlier post I discussed one of Alaska’s Pacific salmon. They have a life cycle that appears to benefit their species. They are born in streams, travel to the ocean where there […]

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Aging, Biology, Genetics

The Inflammation Age

June 21, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

The New York Times recently reported that over 75% of Americans have some form of gum disease. I’m one of those Americans. Even though I have my teeth cleaned by […]

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Aging, Biology, Culture and Society, Genetics

Pleistocene Park, Alaska

June 13, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

What would it be like to hunt a woolly mammoth? I’m not talking about going back in time. I’m talking about genetic engineering that could bring an extinct species back […]

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Biology, Genetics

Healing Broken Hearts

March 1, 2014by lalancaster 1 Comment

With Valentine’s Day not that far behind us, I thought I’d share two fascinating techniques researchers are developing to help patients heal after heart attacks that I could also use […]

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Biology, Genetics

Genetic Surgery?

December 22, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

Will genetic surgery ever be possible? Could a genetic engineer take a faulty gene or two that were causing your illness, cut them out and swap in a good copy? […]

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Aging, Biology, Genetics

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