The BGI corporation's cognitive genomics research project is reportedly behind schedule, facing a 12-month delay due to the acquisition of a gene sequencer company and a transition to new machines. Additionally, the lead researcher has left the project to start his own company. Despite these setbacks, the project remains funded and continues to make progress. For updates, checking their news feed or contacting them directly is suggested.
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The BGI corporation has a research project that is called cognitive genomics. Has anyone seen any results from them yet? They seems to be behind schedule.
I did contact them. They just bought a gene sequencer company. They are switching over to the new machines. This is a 12 month delay in schedule. Also the lead researcher left to start his own company. But the project is still funded and making progress.
Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern U.S.
According to articles in the Los Angeles Times, "Chagas disease, long considered only a threat abroad, is established in California and the Southern U.S.", and "Kissing bugs bring deadly disease to California". LA Times requires a subscription.
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I just read about a pandemic of "sleeping sickness" aka Encephalitis lethargica from 1915 to 1926; cause unknown!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalitis_lethargica
Encephalitis lethargica is characterized by high fever, sore throat, headache, lethargy, double vision, delayed physical and mental response, sleep inversion and catatonia.
I am reading Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance. Please let's not make this thread a critique about the merits or demerits of the book. This thread is my attempt to understanding the evidence that Natural Selection in the human genome was recent and regional.
On Page 103 of A Troublesome Inheritance, Wade writes the following: "The regional nature of selection was first made evident in a genomewide scan undertaken by Jonathan Pritchard, a population geneticist at the...