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what makes blue eyes - somewhat surprising
2/15/2009
Darwin, like many Europeans, had blue eyes. In early 2008, Hans Eiberg and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen announced that they had found the genetic mutation common to all pure blue-eyed people. The mutation is a single letter change, from A to G, on the long arm of chromosome 15, which dampens the expression of a gene called OCA2, involved in the manufacture of the pigment that darkens the eyes. By comparing the DNA of Danes with that of people from Turkey and Jordan, Eiberg calculated that this mutation happened only about 6,000-10,000 years ago, well after the invention of agriculture, in a particular individual somewhere around the Black Sea. So Darwin may have gotten his blue eyes because of a single misspelled letter in the DNA in the baby of a Neolithic farmer.
excerpted from http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/darwin-legacy/ridley-text/1
and from a different source, here is a little graph of who does and does not accept the theory of evolution:
15 Amazing Yearbook Photos of U.S. Politicians
2/14/2009
the prez
mike huckabee - looks eerily similar to a dealer i know
john mccain
joe biden - who knew biden was a hottie!15 Amazing Yearbook Photos of U.S. Politicians
here's just a couple
gene therapy and HIV - info via andrew sullivan
2/09/2009
We found out a long time ago that a genetic variation in some people - more common in Europeans than Africans - made their CD4 cells resistant to HIV. The gene variation is known as CCR5. Now there's a long-awaited breakthrough in altering non-resistant CD4 cells to mimic CCR5's anti-HIV qualities. It's still in early development and might not pan out in practice - but gene therapy may well be the closest we get to a silver bullet against this disease. And it's nearer than some imagine. Video here.
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