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DNews Talks Sunny-D!:
So in addition being just plain cold, we’ve probably all felt a little different in-general in the wintertime.
Well Discovery’s DNews dives into some of the possible causes & complications in this here video.
In general, most everything is written-down to the Lack of Sunlight.
That in-turn creates a lowering of Vitamin D and an increase of Melatonin in your body…
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-And one day, maybe Super-You. Or your super-grandkids.
So a short while ago, Chinese researchers pulled-off some of the first gene-modifications with that new technique from “BREAKTHROUGH”.
What they did with it is to create a new generation of dogs with a very uncommon trait: Super Muscles.
What it could mean for us one day is another set of radical changes; maybe whether we like it or not…
-Or 80% dog?
-Or 50% banana?
Actual reality may be a little more complex than high-school biology lead you to believe.
Check out the vid to see a few of the faults in the original theory…
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And as a great companion video to the Vsauce post, ASAPScience asks if we can improve not our Strength or Speed, but our Intelligence through genetic means, and what people are already doing about it.
The core of their idea is based on The Cognitive Genomics Project, Big Data & Gene Therapy…
In this video, VSauce gets into the DNA-Techy meat of the most serious self-improvement question imaginable:
Forget the Deepak Chopra Aisle at the Barnes & Noble, -Can we make ourselves better or even Superhuman by using genetic alterations like in the game BioShock?
Well, the Michael Stevens-less host Jake Roper goes on with a little help from ASAPScience to ask those questions and find the supporting research on things like Speed, Strength and Smarts.
Typical Vsauce kookiness, and Worth a watch…
15 years ago, the human DNA code was sequenced by groups led by Craig Venter and Francis Collins.
Well now we have another first. In a set of more than 20 published papers, the human Epi-Genome has now been decoded for at least 120+ different types of tissue.
Why is this important?
It turns out that the genetics of every sickness you could get or not, and every type of tissue your body could make or function…
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Wired DATA | Life Presents The AI+ML+Big Data Future Of Health & Medicine:
After MD Anderson’s 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods, I was reminded of one more thing:
Back in November, there was a health conference that both MDACC & Wired put on called Wired DATA | Life.
It was a small invitation-only shindig, mostly for people really into the health space, like doctors and biotech entrepreneurs; so it didn’t really get a lot of press coverage.
Nevertheless, for those of you interested in the subject, -ESPECIALLY- its intersection with “Big Data”, some of the segments are really not bad.
So below, there is a list…
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So a while ago, science kicked Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s butt largely to the curb, tossing him in with the nutbar phrenologists and palm-readers.
DNA=Traits+Health, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. That is all. No character or experience could be inherited outside of Dr. Freud’s Psychology.
Well the latest broadside by the new-ish science of Epigenetics into the flanks of older-science: Genetics has just hit in the form of some bummed-out mouse…
