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Decision-making could be unconscious

What makes us different is not who we are, not what we think, but the decisions we make. That defines us, it’s what makes us different from others. But aside what you’d want to think, it turns out decision-making may be a process handled to a large extent by unconscious mental activity. A team of scientists [...]

‘Ruthlessness gene’ discovered

Recently, it seems there’s a gene for everything, from generosity to ruthlesness. That still doesn’t mean that you can blame everything on your genes, but it may go to show the fact that even some of the world’s most cruelest dictators may owe their behaviour partly to their genes, at least according to a study [...]

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Created Without The Destruction Of Embryos

The ethical and moral aspects of using stem cells have been discussed a lot and it seems there is no good answer; genetic practically has no limit and since the discovery of DNA things have evolved very quickly. But the thing is that the moral aspects concerning it could be left unsolved and yet everybody [...]

Generosity is probably somewhat genetic

We have just began to understand our genome yet there are still numerous things we fail to understand; there is a very big number of genes of which we know very little about. How we act and do and think is influenced by our genes but how exactly is this possible in some cases is [...]

What Is Genetic Engineering

So according to Wikipedia it involves the isolation, manipulation and reintroduction of DNA into cells or model organisms, usually to express a protein to reach desired effects. The aim is to introduce new characteristics or attributes physiologically or physically, such as making a crop resistant to a herbicide, introducing a novel trait, enhancing existing ones, [...]