Shorter telomere length linked to catching a cold
Test subjects with shorter immune cell telomeres faced an increased risk of catching a cold. It is the first time the DNA structures had been implicated in acute illnesses in healthy, relatively young people
Quotes from Nobel Conference “Genetic Revolution and its Impact on Society”
From post on Conference Bites:
Genetic Revolution and its Impact on Society
December 9, 2012 Stockholm
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Children with older fathers and grandfathers ‘live longer’
Delaying fatherhood may offer survival advantages, say scientists who have found children with older fathers and grandfathers appear to be “genetically programmed” to live longer.
‘Junk DNA’ Debunked
The deepest look into the human genome so far shows it to be a richer, messier and more intriguing place than was believed just a decade ago.
Genetic material of good human bacteria sequenced
For the first time ever, scientists working on the federally-funded Human Microbiome Project have isolated over 100 trillion bacteria in the human body that have been deemed essential to healthy human function
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