Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:00:00 PST Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101220/19172612346/dailydirt-medical-curiosities.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101220/19172612346/dailydirt-medical-curiosities.shtml

You are not only what you eat. You're also what your father ate. Epigenetics kinda messes with selfish genes a bit. [url]

A cure for HIV might involve a bone marrow transplant. There's only one case so far of this working, and about 30% of bone marrow transplant patients don't survive the procedure -- so no celebrations are planned just yet. [url]

In 2008, a girl's blood type was changed after receiving a bone marrow liver transplant. Her immune system was also converted to that of her donor, so if this procedure were just a bit less random and risky -- there might be some cool treatments from this process...? [url]

Big amygdalas are correlated with being social. With this in mind, social media experts everywhere might want to get their heads examined. [url]

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