by Neil Bossenger | Jun 16, 2013 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
We have found genes that are switched on in one twin and switched off in the other twin – Professor Tim Spector. An article in the NZ Herald highlights a concept that is starting to become more mainstream in the public eye: that the fate of your health and...
by Neil Bossenger | Jun 15, 2013 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
How a gene controls neuronal traffic in the assembly of an electrical circuit. To form the complex circuits of the brain, neurons have to know when to grow and when to stop. The above image displays light-sensing neurons in the eye of a fruit fly (red and green)....
by Neil Bossenger | Oct 15, 2011 | Research, Spinewave Bulletin
The nervous system of the fruit fly, magnified 40 times. There was a time when we thought genes controlled everything and that humans were genetically superior. Yet the human genome is estimated to have only 23,000 protein-encoding genes, while the minuscule fruit fly...
by Neil Bossenger | Jun 13, 2010 | Spinewave Bulletin
Finally these concepts are starting to hit mainstream media: that your genes do not control your future, and are not to blame for all your problems. In the nature/nurture argument, genetic manifestation of what’s going on in your life accounts for less than 25%....
