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European tribes… and how to make them
The year’s 2166, it’s been 300 years since Mendel spent too much time observing peas and came out with the concept of Mendelian inheritance which sparked the beginning of Modern genetics. In non-scientific news, the Simpsons showrunners have announced that show will go on for at least a hundred more years. Aliens had first arrived […]
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Eugenics: Dark Past of Selective Breeding
Sir Francis Galton, Victorian psychologist and scientist, was by all accounts a genius. He was responsible for inventions such as the weather map and classifying fingerprints for use in forensic science. He also began studying short term climate change in his native England. As a half cousin to Charles Darwin, he became fascinated with The […]
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Race and Intelligence
Over time, Dr. James Watson, the esteemed Nobel Prize winner, established himself as a magnificent scientist. In fact, Watson was held in such high regard as Dr. Francis Crick, his Nobel Prize winning associate. Watson was a philosophical-yet-practical intellectual who applied liberal, deducible and introductory logic., who left no room for error in his experiments, […]
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E1b1a haplogroup and Sickle Cell disease
Some time back we had talked about how Gene Therapy, which is essentially a way of throwing out defective genes from one’s body and replacing them with normal ones, was instrumental in curing Sickle Cell Anemia. Sickle Cell Anemia is basically a disorder wherein the blood cell which should essentially be round like Oreos morph […]
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Genetic Engineering – Cure for HIV, eradication of Malaria
Cure for HIV, eradication of Malaria: Gene Editing holds the key In 2015, according to a WHO report there were about 212 million cases of malaria recorded globally. out of which a staggering 429,000 cases resulted in the death of the patient. Similarly, since its detection, HIV has been detected in over 70 million people […]
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