Are you a morning person? Your hair knows
this is cool Body-clock gene reveals sleep cycles with just a pluck, study says When the researchers tested the genes in the subjects’ follicles, they found that body-clock gene activity peaked right after a subject had woken up, regardless of [...]
The future of food
long (hour and a half) but really interesting documentary about the history of genetically modified food in north america and its future…i definitely recommend watching it, even if you can only manage a little bit at a time
Social drinking gene?
this is super interesting: Gene Makes Some Drink More When Other Boozers Are Around Individuals who inherit a particular gene variant that tweaks the brain’s reward system are especially likely to drink a lot of alcohol in the company of [...]
i’ll have some half cock half hen wings please
so apparently sex determination in chickens is inherently different than in humans…some are gynandromorphous and can be half male and half female in the same individual: Scientists solve half-cock chicken mystery Half-and-half chicken will have totally different plumage, body shape, [...]
this is why you dont fuck sheep
and here i thought this would have come from scotland/new zealand: Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb in Turkey unfortunately the stupid fucking locals were afraid of the mutation and burned it before biologists could have student the mutation mirror [...]
gender controlled by a gene?
this is pretty interesting: Scientists find single ‘on-off’ gene that can change gender traits The gene appears to have a “see-saw” relationship with another gene, SOX9, which is normally active only in males. When one is on, the other is [...]
gene variant responsible for bad driving?
i think the gene variant is a lack of a Y-chromosome x Blame genetics for bad driving, study finds x heres a more sciency article about it (obviously not from CNN): Bad Driving May Have Genetic Basis, Study Finds x