Author Archives: DWN

Some of you will be interested in the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee Spring 2026 NewsLetter. —DwN 😊 Spring newsletter 2026 27 Mar 2026 VGNC Updates The VGNC project is green for go! We are delighted to announce that, following a … Continue reading →

In a way, this article [see attached] is a sequel to the Moody et al. publication [The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system. Nat Ecol Evol. 2024; 8: 1654-1666] — which … Continue reading →

his article just appeared in Medscape, and it should be (pharmacologically) very interesting — especially for any of us who are dealing with a lot of severe chronic lower back pain… ☹ —DwN Novel Opioid Offers Potent Pain Relief Without … Continue reading →

During the past ~30-40 years, the field of Structural Biology has exploded. From a string of nucleotides, 3-dimensional structures (of e.g., DNA, RNA) can be proposed. From a string of amino acids, cytoplasmic proteins as well as membrane-bound proteins can … Continue reading →

Out of the blue, we at GEITP received an anonymous email question in early developmental biology. In answering his/her question, this became such a major educational story — that we believe it is worthwhile sharing with all of GEITP. Question: … Continue reading →

The topic of this fascinating article might not be directly a gene-environment interactions topic, per se, but it’s worthy of sharing with all of GEITP — because it shows how far DNA analysis in Criminology has come.😊 On the news … Continue reading →

Using an expanded molecular clock approach (a new evolutionary model that rewrites the story of early life on Earth), scientists mapped out a clearer timeline as to how early gene families evolved. They discovered that key eukaryotic features emerged — … Continue reading →

WHY does the topic of “evolution” keep “popping up” — in these Gene-Environment Interactions email blogs?? The answer, of course, is that the organism’s genome evolves because of the constantly-changing environment to which the organism is exposed. Consequently, every evolutionary … Continue reading →

Pain,” as assessed by the patient, is a quagmire in clinical medicine. “Environmental signals” result in receptor-transmitted genetic networks in the brainstem and brain that lead to the “perception of pain intensity.” And, of course, each patient’s genetic predisposition — … Continue reading →