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"Sequencing sets of genes is already being used to guide cancer treatment, and many cancer centres expect to move to whole-genome or exome sequencing at some point. Clinical sequencing programmes aimed at identifying the causes of rare genetic diseases, mostly in children, are also being set up. But how often access to a patient's full genome actually leads to a useful diagnosis is an open question, because most published reports have focused on one-off success stories" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"The NIH points out that increased education regarding the nature of lactose intolerance and the relatively narrow scope of its symptoms — as well as the fact that it’s a benign and easily alleviated digestive malfunction — could help to prevent needless avoidance of dairy by those who incorrectly assume they are lactose intolerant. While dairy isn’t essential to the human diet, it’s nevertheless an excellent source of calcium, which can otherwise be difficult to incorporate into the diet apart from supplementation. Further, most dairy in the U.S. is fortified with vitamin D, in which many Americans are deficient, and which is required for the uptake of calcium from the gut." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"A way to beat cancer cells may not be to try to find drugs that kill them specifically but to confuse them by generating extreme environments, such as fasting that only normal cells can quickly respond to."" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

1000 timer lydbøker til fri avspilling – og gode priser på øvrig utvalg! - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

Det er jeg også, men det har blitt mye engelsk til nå. Har brukt telefonen til avspilling en god stund allerede. - Eivind

"To extract individual genomes, Armbrust’s PhD student Vaughn Iverson exploited skills that had he gained as a computer scientist designing video compression technology at Intel in Portland, Oregon. He developed a computational method to break the stitched metagenome into chunks that could be separated into different types of organisms. He was then able to assemble the complete genome of Euryarchaeota, even though it was rare within the sample. He plans to release the software over the next six months." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"In its three-year pilot phase, the Norwegian Cancer Genomics Consortium will sequence the tumour genomes of 1,000 patients in the hope of influencing their treatments" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"The real gold may be in combining the two therapies, the experts theorized. "These drugs are going to be used in sequence and we would expect the survival to be fairly dramatically pushed forward," according to Scher. "There will be a major bump up in the overall survival of this group of patients in the next two to three years."" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"I’m pretty confident that we will not see a day when parents routinely use reproductive technologies to select for cosmetic traits, or even against multifactorial diseases. The complexity of the genome is too great, and the gene-gene, gene-environment, epigenetic interactions too numerous and minute to control. But, maybe I’m just blinded by my personal opinions on the matter." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Objective To determine whether maternal exposure to high levels of magnetic fields (MFs) during pregnancy is associated with the risk of asthma in offspring." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Conclusion Our findings provide new epidemiological evidence that high maternal MF levels in pregnancy may increase the risk of asthma in offspring." - Nils Reinton

"Vi sier til barn at de kan bli hva de vil, om de bare tar seg sammen, men det stemmer ikke, hevder intelligensforskere. Intelligens er noe man blir født med, og menneskeheten er blitt genetisk dummere siden 1850." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"If you subliminally remind people about God, it can change their behaviour in all sorts of interesting ways. It can make people more honest, more obedient, more punishing, and even more persevering against impossible odds. And although it's not certain, it seems to work for atheists as well as the religious." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Further, Fitzpatrick’s process is simply a new twist on an old method. How is Fitzpatrick’s DNA search different, for example, from any of the following (and please don’t throw any genetic exceptionalism arguments my way!): Using a public reverse-phone lookup to identify the owner of a phone number? I didn’t authorize my phone number for that use; Searching through a public phone book to identify all the Bettingers in New York state? I didn’t authorize my phone book listing for that purpose; Using the census to identify my ancestors? I guarantee that NONE of my ancestors authorized the use of the census for genealogical research (indeed, just think of ALL the secrets that have been revealed in the census that our ancestors would have wanted buried forever!)." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

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Is not late at all. Thanks !! - Pablo José Sáez

"The odor from infected individuals was reported as less pleasant in comparison with the odor of healthy and recovered young men. The scent of infected men was more frequently associated by raters with the descriptor "putrid." Odor pleasantness of the male sweat correlated negatively with concentration of the nonspecific salivary IgA and IgG, which was measured as an indicator of current immunoenhancement. Conclusion.  Perhaps, the immune-dependent reduction of the scent pleasantness in the acute phase of STI is part of an evolutionary mechanism ensuring, unconsciously, avoidance of a risky romantic partner." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Within the CIA’s program MK-ULTRA, the infamous Dr. Ewen Cameron used electro-shock therapy, LSD and other psychotropic drugs and various forms of psychological torture on children and adults, trying to de-program the brain in order to re-program it with new information." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Kim McCleary, president and chief executive of the CFIDS Association of America said CFS patients are “certainly disappointed and discouraged that this did not pan out the way it was initially promoted. But they understand there’s no point in pursuing a dead end.”" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Raymond Tallis likes a fight. On a recent afternoon, visiting this historic city to lecture at the University of Kent, the physician-philosopher intends to pick one. His target: a rash of pseudo brain science that purports to explain behavior as varied as believing in God and falling in love. Tallis, a former clinical neuroscientist who devoted years to studying stroke and epilepsy, considers such claims trash. Neurotrash." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Vedrørende en tverrfaglig overveielse genereres potensialet parallelt med verdiene." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

Can anyone send the above to: http://is.gd/Ag43 - Iddo Friedberg

Enjoy! - LB so u no it's real

""You'd think that when people are stuck with a system, they'd want to change it more," says Kay. But in fact, the more stuck they are, the more likely are they to explain away its shortcomings. Finally, a related phenomenon: The less control people feel over their own lives, the more they endorse systems and leaders that offer a sense of order." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

Good explanation for why people still defend the current scholarly publishing system... - Björn Brembs

"In his latest trick, published in May3, Ehrsson convinced people that they had jumped into a tiny Barbie doll. When he prodded the doll's legs, the volunteers thought they were being prodded by giant objects. And when Ehrsson tested the illusion on himself and a colleague touched his cheek, he says, he looked up and “felt as if I was back in my childhood and looking at my mother”." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"There's plenty of evidence that we have just such a system at work overseeing our health. For example, in winter, we are cautious about deploying our immune resources. That's why a cold lasts much longer in winter than it does in summer. It's not because we're cold, it's because our bodies, based on deep evolutionary history reckon that it's not so safe to use our immune resources in winter, as it would be in summer. There's experimental confirmation of this in animals." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"My the end of this decade there will have been about twenty years of literary science fiction that will more smoothly fit the new technological world. We may find that the science fiction movie writing tradition moves more into line with the scientifically plausible field of sf literature. This lack of development in popular science fiction movies has been one of the key elements in the ongoing cultural denial of the technological singularity." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

can't access anything in AAAS. - Graham Steel

No luck. :( - LB so u no it's real

On its way - Nils Reinton

"A number of studies have shown that people who are GG at rs10757278 have about 1.5 higher odds of having a heart attack. In the current study, people who were GG and only occasionally ate raw vegetables and fruit had a two-fold higher risk of heart attack compared to controls who were AA and ate a similar diet. The surprising finding is that people who were GG and frequently ate raw vegetables and fruit did not experience heart attacks more than controls." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

Email http://is.gd/fH7i thanks - Sally Church

Rec'd, cheers Bill - Sally Church

"Instead of going on a waiting list for a transplant, doctors injected donor liver cells into his abdomen. These processed toxins and produced vital proteins - acting rather like a temporary liver." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"The brain scans of high school football and hockey players showed subtle injury -- even if they did not suffer a concussion -- after taking routine hits to the head during the normal course of play, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"Interestingly, the study also shows that ageing can be delayed without caloric restriction by only increasing the quantity of Srx1 in the cell. Repair of the peroxiredoxin Prx1 consequently emerges as a key process in ageing" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

"The "Mozart Effect" refers to a set of research results that found listening to Mozart's music may result in significant short-term improvement in spatial temporal reasoning." - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet