Undergraduates and others are delving into modern genetics and genomics technologies in classrooms across the country.
| December 1, 2012
Cheryl Kerfeld speaks at faculty workshops held at the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute (JGI) for training in bioinformatics and the Integrated Microbial Genomes Annotation Collaboration Toolkit (IMG-ACT) system.
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December 4, 2012
:"The diagnostic criteria for iron deficiency in infants
should be reevaluated."If one is going to study genomics one MUST be ASSURED information used to study genomics is SOUND.
Let us all agree , medicine , therefore genomics , has a source , and that source is based on a paradox.
Not a good start.
The paradox being , the human female is the only female of a species which is univerally iron deficient. That accepted paradox is why we add the metal iron to all our floured products , that and all our children are iron deficient , another paradox.
The fact being , noone is iron deficient , and all that oxidation which is 'disturbing' genomics , causing genetic mutation , is actually coming FROM the increased iron in humans , which is coming from meat.
Increased iron stores , oxidation / rust , being THE premiere DNA damager.
An example of children diagnosed iron deficient , when they are NOT iron deficient is described here.
Younger researchers looking at the work of their predecessors found them to be wanting , due to the fact the kids were , healthy and happy , BUT , didn't meet the criteria set out by the old f#rts , IE: hemoglobin of 11.
"The diagnostic criteria for iron deficiency in infants should be reevaluated."
December 7, 2012
This is an example of how they believe iron damages DNA.
“Our results also suggest that iron could be raising the risk of bowel cancer by increasing the number of cells in the bowel with APC faults. The more of these cells in the bowel, the greater the chance that one of these will become a starting point for cancer."
A sequencing study suggests that some genes have evolved in parallel in humans and their canine companions, likely as a result of shared selection pressures.
The cost of DNA sequencing has gotten more expensive for the first time since records have been kept.
Some geneticists are skeptical of a project that will analyze the DNA of high-IQ individuals to identify genetic variants related to intelligence.
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