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Fingerprint White Lines and Gluten
A lthough almost everyone knows that fingerprint ridge patterns remain constant and unchanging throughout life (which is why they are so useful to law enforcement) even professionals involved in...
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The Epigenetics of Lifespan
N umerous studies have shown that a diet of reduced calories, also known as caloric restriction (or CR) promotes lifespan extension by up to 50% in a wide range of organisms, including yeast, worms,...
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Review of ‘Fundamentals of Generative Medicine’
Joseph E. Pizzorno, ND of was kind enough to send along a review of my textbook Fundamentals of Generative Medicine that will appear in the upcoming issue of Integrative Medicine, A Clinician’s...
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The Great Chain of Being
The Book of Genesis has an interesting take on genetics and the environment: “And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and piled white strakes in them, and made the...
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Despised Theories, No. 3: Lysenkoism
If contemporary ‘modern-synthesis’ genetic determinism was tainted with the over-extrapolations of eugenics, Lamarkism and epigenetics labored under its own set of miasma –brought about as much by...
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Chutes and Ladders
“The major problem, I think, is chromatin… you can inherit something beyond the DNA sequence. That’s where the real excitement of genetics is now” —James Watson Chutes and Ladders is a popular...
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Hongerwinter
On September 17, 1944, the sky over southern Holland was filled with paratroopers. That sunny Sunday afternoon marked the beginning of operation “Market Garden,” Field Marshall Montgomery’s plan that...
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Transposable elements
DNA sequencing is not static. A considerable amount of DNA jumps around from place to place. While other elements compete for representation at a given locus, transposable elements accumulate by...
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Morphometrics
“There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery. —Enrico Fermi A few...
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