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Tag 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

Results-What Kind of Immortal Are You?

September 19, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

The results are in! Two weeks ago, I created a novel-based poll, What Kind of Immortal Are You? I asked readers to vote which secret society they would join if they […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

Finding the Right Names

August 12, 2014by lalancaster Leave a comment

The Phoenix Alliance. The Phoenix Council. I was playing around with a name that would represent a group of immortals in my novel. They do come together to vote and […]

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Culture and Society, Writing Science Fiction

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

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

Battle of the Sexes-who lives longer?

August 2, 2013by lalancaster Leave a comment

Studies have found there are four or five women centenarians for every one man over 100. It must be in those two X chromosomes, right? That’s what I thought until […]

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Aging, Immortality

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