Turkey weekend update: Brain-scan your teen, probe your Nubian ancestry, learn healthcare economics, and more
Welcome back, American readers, from what we hope was a long and leftover-filled weekend. The news was slow, but here are a few stories you might have missed while still in your post-dinner food coma.
Frustrated by your teenager? Scan his brain — Actually, that probably wouldn’t help, although Arthur Toga has given it a try. Sort of. Toga, director of UCLA’s Laboratory for Neuro Imaging, has scanned the brain of his daughter Elizabeth ’s every… Continue Reading
Genetic genealogy hits the big time
No question about it, genetic genealogy — the hobby of using genetic tests to trace your ancestry and, in some cases, to locate previously unknown relatives — is hot these days. Today, of course, brought the news that Ancestry.com, a genealogy Web site that lets users construct family trees and pore over digitized versions of old census records or ship-passenger manifests, is launching a DNA Ancestry service as well. (Matt covered that in his story… Continue Reading