Connection Between Epigenome, Selective Mutability, Evolution, and Human Disease
Li, Harris et al., PLoS Genetics
Researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere propose a "connection between the epigenome, selective mutability, evolution, and human disease" based on the findings of their study on associations of structural mutability with germline DNA methylation and with non-allelic homologous recombination mediated by low-copy repeats. "Combined evidence from four human sperm methylome maps, human genome evolution, structural polymorphisms in the human population, and previous genomic and disease studies consistently points to a strong association of germline hypomethylation and genomic instability," the Baylor-led team writes.
Tenured Academic Leaves Job for Love
July 02, 2010
Robert Drago, "one of the most prominent scholars of policies promoting work-life balance in academe has just given up tenure for love," reports The Chronicle of Higher Education. The former full professor at Penn State has elected to take another job, outside of academia, in Washington, DC, to be closer to his girlfriend while she works toward a doctoral degree in Virginia. Drago insists that his situation "wouldn't be a story if I were a woman, because thousands of women do this every year," he tells the Chronicle. "They either don't get on the tenure track so their husband can, or they move with their husband and end up doing contingent work and teaching ad hoc because their husband's job comes first."
This is so typical. Older
This is so typical. Older man falls in love with hot young woman and follows her anywhere. What happened to his ex-wife? She must be very classy not to point out the farce.