Category Archives: Center for Environmental Genetics

This syndrome is getting to be just a little bit creepy — especially for those of us who are under 50 (–as well as those over 50 who sometimes feel like we’re still younger than 50). 😉 DwN What We … Continue reading →

Because these GEITP pages have been sharing many of Svante Pääbo’s exciting breakthrough publications — over the past 14 years — we believe it is only appropriate to report on his winning the 2022 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine this … Continue reading →

Along with the themes of “gene-environment interactions” and “evolution” — GEITP emails over the past 14+ years include, from time-to-time, breaking news on “fraud and corruption in science.” This winning article, just published in The Epoch Times, qualifies for sharing … Continue reading →

Web site from my astronomy son, David. This project is SO cool. SO amazing all this could be done (from millions of miles away) Dimorphos: NASA flies its spacecraft into asteroid in direct hit Jonathan Amos Science correspondent @BBCAmoson Twitter … Continue reading →

In 1931, Monseigneur Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (b. 1894; d. 1966) put forth the idea that there was once a primordial atom which had contained all the matter in the universe. The other support for the Big Bang that … Continue reading →

From time to time, GEITP ponders various aspects of the earliest evolution of Life Forms on Earth. The attached article discusses the early evolution of eukaryotes — which is arguably one of the most important processes in the history of … Continue reading →

This article — just out today on Medscape — will no doubt be of interest to some of you. DwN Did the U.S. Jump the Gun with the New Omicron-Targeted Vaccines? Céline Gounder and Elisabeth Rosenthal September 12, 2022 Last … Continue reading →

Memories acquired close together in time often become linked, such that recalling one memory leads to the recall of additional memories. For example, recently while writing a “Memoirs” book for my children and grandkids, I tried to remember the name … Continue reading →

These are worthwhile points, George. This study underscores the difficulties and complexities of transitioning — all the way from an in vitro system to a cell-culture system using Lec2 living cells — to studies in the intact laboratory animal, and, … Continue reading →

Due to the large interest among GEITP’ers in looking-at/reading/examining the preprint described in the previous email — attached please find the Petitjean et al., pdf file (from the David Alsteens Lab) in Nat Commun, in press, accepted for publication on … Continue reading →