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January 3, 20261900: Rediscovery of Mendel’s Work
January 1, 2026https://www.genome.gov/25520238/online-education-kit-1900-rediscovery-of-mendels-work QT:{{” DeVries, Correns and Tschermak independently rediscover Mendel’s work. Three botanists – Hugo DeVries, Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak – independently rediscovered Mendel’s work in the same year, a generation after Mendel published his papers. They helped expand awareness of the Mendelian laws of inheritance in the scientific world.
The three Europeans, unknown to each other, were working on different plant hybrids when they each worked out the laws of inheritance. When they reviewed the literature before publishing their own results, they were startled to find Mendel’s old papers spelling out those laws in detail. Each man announced Mendel’s discoveries and his own work as confirmation of them. “}}
Asbjørn Følling and the discovery of phenylketonuria – PubMed
January 1, 2026https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12785112/
Christ, S. E. (2003). Asbj�rn F�lling and the Discovery of
Phenylketonuria. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 12(1), 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1076/jhin.12.1.44.13788
From R.A. Fisher’s 1918 Paper to GWAS a Century Later | Genetics | Oxford Academic
January 1, 2026https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/211/4/1125/5931511
Visscher, P. M., & Goddard, M. E. (2019). From R.A. Fisher’s 1918 paper to GWAS a century later. Genetics, 211(4), 1125–1130.
https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301594
Full article: Genomic Contextualism: Shifting the Rhetoric of Genetic Exceptionalism
January 1, 2026https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2018.1544304
Human genome exceptionalism is the idea that genetic information is uniquely powerful, personal, and different from other medical data, requiring special legal and ethical protections, but many argue this view is outdated, hindering research and policy by treating genetics as fundamentally separate rather than as an intimate, but contextual, part of a person’s health information
The human disease network | PNAS
January 1, 2026https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0701361104?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed QT:{{” We find that essential human genes are likely to encode hub proteins and are expressed widely in most tissues. This suggests that disease genes also would play a central role in the human interactome. In contrast, we find that the vast majority of disease genes are nonessential and show no tendency to encode hub proteins, and their expression pattern indicates that they are localized in the functional periphery of the network. “}}
Goh, K., Cusick, M. E., Valle, D., Childs, B., Vidal, M., & Barabási, A. (2007). The human disease network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(21), 8685–8690.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0701361104
POSTER: ‘Human Knockout Project’ in a Pakistani Population with High Levels of Consanguinity – Mass General Advances in Motion
January 1, 2026Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge – Henry Plotkin – Google Books
January 1, 2026https://books.google.com/books/about/Darwin_Machines_and_the_Nature_of_Knowle.html?id=Q6vsdBdWkc8C QT:{{” Learn and survive. Behind this simple equation lies a revolution in the study of knowledge, which has left the halls of philosophy for the labs of science. This book offers a cogent account of what such a move does to our understanding of the nature of learning, rationality, and intelligence. Bringing together
evolutionary biology, psychology, and philosophy, Henry Plotkin presents a new science of knowledge, one that traces an unbreakable link between instinct and our ability to know. Contrary to the modern liberal idea that knowledge is something derived from experience, this science shows us that what we know is what our nature allows us to know, what our instincts tell us we must know. Since our ability to know our world depends primarily on what we call intelligence, intelligence must be understood as an extension of instinct. Drawing on contemporary evolutionary theory, especially notions of
hierarchical structure and universal Darwinism, Plotkin tells us that the capacity for knowledge, which is what makes us human, is deeply rooted in our biology “}}
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