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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 19/08/2011 16:17:40

Title: Can the way you feel pain be altered by your genes?
Post by: thedoc on 19/08/2011 16:17:40

Rare genetic mutations have been known to abolish pain, or to cause permanent agony. But what if subtle differences in genes mean that everyone has a different pain threshold that is hard-wired into their genetics?

Read the article (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/pain-genes-and-perception/) then tell us what you think...

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Post by: San on 23/04/2012 01:49:11

“Oppenheimer, they tell me you are writing ptoery. I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write a ptoery at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In ptoery you are bound to say something that everybody knows already in words that nobody can understand.”