Friday, October 16, 2009
Dancing The Bryan Ferry
Posted by Charles Mudede on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM
This passage about the epigenome ("the first manual to show how genes are orchestrated inside cells") appeared in the Guardian yesterday:
If the genetic code were a keyboard, the epigenome would be the pianist. Different chords become the various cell types, and all the notes have to be played perfectly to produce a healthy human being.
This passage about new discoveries that concern the Broca's area (the part of the brain that is linked to production of language), appeared in Science Daily today:
The first evidence that parts of the brain may correspond to parts of the the mind was the discovery that patients with damage to Broca's area were unable to talk but could still think. In the 150 years since this discovery, progress in understanding what precisely Broca's area contributes to language has been disappointing," said principal investigator Eric Halgren, PhD, professor in the UCSD Department of Radiology. "These [new] results suggest that Broca's area actually consists of several overlapping parts, performing distinct computational steps in a tightly timed choreography, a dance that may simply have been undetectable due to the level of resolution of previous methods.
The body is the music; the mind is the dance. Don't stop the dance:
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