"Double Mutant" Covid Variant Identified In California

Researchers Identify Five New Cases Of "Double Mutant" Covid Variant In California by Rich Mendez. CNBC.  April 8, 2021.   

A State Of The Variants Report From A Virologist

 How Worried Should You Be About Coronavirus Variants?  A Virologist Explains His Concerns by Paulo Verardi.  Associate Professor of Virology and Vaccinology, University of Connecticut.  April 8, 2021.  

Uncontrolled Spread Of COVID-19 Increases Risk Than More Dangerous Variant May Emerge

High Levels Of Covid Infection Right Now Could Mean Problems For Vaccines Later, Ex-CDC Chief Says by Christina Maxouris.  March 24, 2021.   

Transmissible Forms Of Cancer May Be Common That Previously Thought Particularly In Aquatic Ecosystems

Humans Shipped An Awful Cargo Across The Seas:  Cancer by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times. November 6, 2019.

Mutation Found To Protect From Dementia In A Brain With A Major Feature Of Alzheimer's

Why Didn't She Get Alzheimer's The Answer Could Hold A Key To Fighting The Disease by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  November 4, 2019.

For The First Time, Genes Edited To Repair Disease-Causing Mutation

In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit A Dangerous Mutation From Genes In Human Embryos by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  August 2, 2017. 

Randomness In Cell Mutations May Play A Bigger Role than People Think In Cancer

SCIENCE SAYS:  Unavoidable Typos In DNA Help Fuel Cancer by Lauran Neergaard. AP/US News.  March 23, 2017. 

Experiment Results Confirm That Sexual Reproduction Weeds Out Genetic Flaws, Providing One Answer To The Question "Why Do Men Exist?"

Why Do Males Exist?  The Sex Live Of Beetles Provide An Explanation by Alan Boyle.  May 18, 2015. 

Random Mutations Responsible For About Two-Thirds Of Cancer Risk: Study

Random Mutations Responsible For About Two-Thirds Of Cancers Risk:  Study by Mary Elizabeth Dallas.  US News/HealthDay.  January 1, 2015.

Different Genotypes In One Individual, Same Genetic Mutations Occur In Unrelated Individuals: Findings That Undermine Traditional Individuality

Novel Genetic Patterns May Make Us Rethink Biology and Individuality.  Science Daily.  November 7, 2013.

(1)  If an individual has several different genotypes and different people have the same genetic mutations, there are serious implications for _______________________.

(2)  The results of the research found here could point to the conclusion that mutations do not always _____________________.

(3)  Multiple genotypes from mutations within one's own body is somewhat analogous to __________.

(4)  The knowledge of how we accumulate mutations may facilitate separating genetic signals that may ________________ from those that ________________.

(5)  Non-random mutation of genes may affect __________ in ways not previously predicted.

21 Mutational Signatures Of 30 Common Cancers Identified

Milestone Study Probes Cancer Origin by James Gallagher.  BBC News.  August 14, 2013.

Gene Study Uncovers Origins Of Many Common Cancers by Kate Kelland.  Reuters.  August 14, 2013.

(1)  According to the study reported in Nature, disruptive changes to the genetic code have been identified for _____% of the 30 most common cancers.

(2) Two of the most well-known causes of  mutations are _________________.

(3)  These _____________ are hidden within the cancer genome which tell us what is actually causing cancer.

(4)  Signatures related to the body's immune system arise from the collateral damage of responding to _________ infection.

(5)  12 of the 21 identified signatures _________________.

(6)  All cancers examined contained two or more ________________.

(7)  Different cancers have different numbers of _________________.

(8)  Some signatures are found in ____________ when others are found ________________.

(9)  Out of the 30 cancers examined _________ had mutational processes linked to _______>

(10)  A family of enzymes called _________ was linked to more than half of the cancers studied.

Developmental Stability the Key to Intelligence?

If Smart is the Norm, Stupidity Gets More Interesting by David Dobbs.  The New York Times.  October 23, 2012.

Since scientists are having difficulty in finding the specific genetic keys to intelligence, they are looking elsewhere.  By looking at the mutations we carry and their relationship to developmental stability, the accuracy with which the genetic design is built, they are beginning to discern an association between bodily symmetry and intelligence.  This article is largely based upon the ideas of Kevin Mitchell, a developmental neurogeneticists at Trinity College Dublin.