Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Cellular Intelligence

The Misunderstood Gene

University of Oxford neuropsychology professor Dorothy Bishop wanted to know where people get the idea that traits like intelligent could be determined by individual genes. S. Pelech points that intelligence is not really a single trait but the manifestation of a series of complex behaviours that arise from both multi-gene influences and the environment, and cautions that genetic profiling companies that advertise that they can identify inborn talents & personality traits from genome sequencing or SNP analyses are plainly deceiving the public. Read More...