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BRCA1 and BRCA2 are normally expressed in the cells of breast and other tissue, where they help repair damaged DNA, or destroy cells if DNA cannot be repaired.
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BRCA1 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016Charles David Allis – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Allis is best known for deciphering regulatory mechanisms that impinge upon the fundamental repeating unit of chromatin and for identifying the responsible enzyme systems that govern the covalent modifications of histone proteins, the principal components that organize chromatin. Allis discovered the critical link, through histone
acetyltransferase-containing transcriptional coactivators, between targeted histone acetylation and gene-specific transcriptional activation.
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His mod discoverer
John Gurdon – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon FRS FMedSci (born 2 October 1933), is an English developmental biologist. He is best known for his pioneering research in nuclear transplantation[2][3][4] and cloning.[1][5][6][7] He was awarded the Lasker Award in 2009. In 2012, he and Shinya Yamanaka were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells.[8]
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C. H. Waddington – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Epigenetic landscape
Waddington’s epigenetic landscape is a metaphor for how gene regulation modulates development.[10] Among other metaphors, Waddington asks us to imagine a number of marbles rolling down a hill.[11] The marbles will compete for the grooves on the slope, and come to rest at the lowest points. These points represent the eventual cell fates, that is, tissue types. Waddington coined the term chreode to represent this cellular developmental process. This idea was actually based on experiment: Waddington found that one effect of mutation (which could modulate the epigenetic landscape) was to affect how cells differentiated. He also showed how mutation could affect the landscape and used this metaphor in his discussions on evolution—he was the first person to emphasise that evolution mainly occurred through mutations that affected developmental anatomy.
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Dopamine receptor D4 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Novelty seeking
Despite early findings of an association between the DRD4 48bp VNTR and novelty seeking (a characteristic of exploratory and excitable people),[19][20] a 2008 meta-analysis compared 36 published studies of novelty seeking and the polymorphism and found no effect. The meta-analysis of 11 studies did find that another polymorphism in the gene, the -521C/T, showed an association with novelty seeking.[12] While human results are controversial, an increasing body of animal evidence has linked DRD4 variants with novelty seeking,
e.g.,,,[21][22][23][24][25] and new evidence suggests that human encroachment may exert selection pressure in favor of DRD4 variants associated with novelty seeking.[26] Novelty-seeking behavior is probably mediated by several genes, and the variance attributable to DRD4 by itself is not particularly large.[citation needed]
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Xq28 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
Xq28 is a chromosome band and genetic marker situated at the tip of the X chromosome which has been studied since at least 1980.[1] The band contains three distinct regions, totaling about 8 Mbp of genetic information.[2] The marker came to the public eye in 1993 when studies by Dean Hamer and others indicated a link between the Xq28 marker and male sexual orientation.[3]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xq28
Alvin Toffler, Author of ‘Future Shock,’ Dies at 87
July 24, 2016QT:{{”
“He advised readers to “concern themselves more and more with general theme, rather than detail.” That theme, he emphasized, was that “the rate of change has implications quite apart from, and sometimes more important than, the directions of change.””
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#AlvinToffler, Author of Future Shock, Dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/books/alvin-toffler-author-of-future-shock-dies-at-87.html Emphasized rate of change is as important to people as its direction
How to reinstall OS X – Apple Support
July 17, 2016QT:{{”
Start up from OS X Internet Recovery by holding down Option-Command-R immediately after turning on or restarting your Mac. Release the keys when you see the Apple logo. Startup is complete when you see the OS X Utilities window.
Open Disk Utility from the OS X Utilities window, then use Disk Utility to erase your built-in hard disk using the OS X Extended (Journaled) format. Quit Disk Utility when done.
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Jupiter Is a Garden of Storms – Issue 22: Slow – Nautilus
July 17, 2016Jupiter Is a Garden…
http://nautil.us/issue/22/slow/jupiter-is-a-garden-of-storms @NASA supports hardware over data analysis, pts resonating w/ other disciplines HT @MarinaP63
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“Now I’m going to make a complaint: NASA’s a wonderful organization, and I’m grateful to NASA for the funding that they’ve given me and my fellow theorists. But the amount of money that they spend on hardware—on getting things up into space, compared with the amount of money they spend to analyze the data they obtain from those things is very imbalanced. There are tons of data from the Voyager trips collected 31 years ago that are still unanalyzed, and getting funding to examine them is very, very difficult. People go, “Oh no, you have to do something new and exciting with new data! You don’t want to go back and look at data that is so old.” But there’s stuff there that’s really valuable! What sells in Congress is hardware. Everybody likes hardware. What NASA really needs—I hate to say this—is another Carl Sagan. Carl had a knack for making people appreciate what we discovered as well as the machines that made the discoveries possible.”
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Herbert Boyer – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July 13, 2016QT:{{”
Herbert W. Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berghe discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, thereby jump starting the field of genetic engineering.
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