the genetic component. i think i understand that 99% of our genes are all alike but the one percent is crucial. >> exactly. so we have known for a long time that a gene's play an important role in autism but it's really only been in the last several years that we've had the tools available to really make progress and get a good picture of the genetic landscape. and really a lot of that is because the advances in nomic technology he allowed to us look at that one percent. the part of the genome that varies between people in a way we have never been able to before so in doing that we found that there are different types of variation that we either didn't know about or didn't pay attention to that turn out to be very important for autism. >> and what are they? >> so we've known for a long time that if you look at two people and examine their genomes that there will be changes or there will be differences in the letter code of dna, say one particular position. and we've known that for a long time. but what we'v

>> as eric is implying, between the psychology and the genetics is the brain. and the hope is that although there may be three or 400 genetic risk factors, they will converge on common pathways. so this is a diagram of a neuron, all these genes are in that little sphere tucked the nucleus and all that genetic information is read and it main tand the shape of the neurocell and function of the neurocell. and one key function we have all been talking about is the connection that nerve cell makes with the next cell in line called the synapse which literally means to clasp. and some synapses are stimulating the next cell in line and o some inhibit it. and the general theory which i ascribe to is that there is an imbalance between this exciteation and inhibition, almost, the world is too much with us, and the autistic child can't process information because of imbalances in those synapses, in key areas of the brain. perhaps those areas in the temp oral lobe, the superior temp oral gyhus that were pointed out in your diagrams. but there are many, many, many proteins t

coming up in this half hour for years biotech companies have been filling food store shelves with genetically modified foods whether or not they're safe how does a new grassroots campaign gaining momentum in the fight against these potentially dangerous foods also florida governor rick scott is on a crusade to examine the bodily fluids of all floridians he said in a few hurdles along the way who is the latest to say no to governor scott's fascination with bodily fluids and in tonight's daily take obesity is an epidemic in america with the obesity rate tripling since one nine hundred sixty so what's ronald reagan's role. in the best of the rest of the news since nine eleven air travel has been a nightmare for americans as we're forced to take our shoes off get x. rayed get groped before we can just step foot on an airplane one group of americans has a particularly bad sikhs according to the sikh coalition sikhs have to go through secondary t.s.a. screenings at the airport virtually one hundred percent of the time strictly based on how they dress many sikh men and some women wear turbans on the

label genetically engineered. while we also have a we also have a bit obesity crisis in the states we also have an explosion of autism among people in that cohort. and my connecting dots the only crazy conspiracy theorist would or not at all and these are the issues that need to be studied certainly was a child with cancer together i mean i have an eight year old girl i'm very interested in the issue of premature puberty you know and and we know that there's a connection between cows that are given growth hormone that make them over produce milk and the types of hormones that are in the children who have premature puberty but it's never been studied so that's what that's what we're being kept and kept away from the knowledge about what is happening with our food supply so tell me what's happening in california you know well over running the california right to know campaign we're going to put this issue on the ballot it has been unfortunately in american democracy with companies like monsanto being able to give so

amyris discovered a way to genetically modify yeast to produce an antimalarial drug.nother company, ls9, has altered the genes of e. coli bacteria to produce fuel. but all of them are modifying a few genes, not designing all of them. venter's rivals say his method is commercially impractical, but he's made a career out of bucking the scientific establishment and earned lots of enemies with his brash behavior and his knack for grabbing research money and the spotlight. so what are your faults? >> probably impatience is the-- you know, the biggest one. i don't suffer fools too well. that--you know? i'm not going to ever win a political contest. >> a lot of people have said you're a self promoter, an egomaniac. true? partially true? not true at all? >> you know, if we hold a press conference, it's considered self-promotion. but somebody at a university, the university holds the press conference, and that's not self-promotion. >> overly ambitious? >> i'm sure i'm very guilty of that. [ticking] >> coming up... >> you accomplished all this stuff, and you got fired by the co

. >> genetic plays a big role and if you have siblings you are at high risk.hink what this tells us, and the medical community, is obviously, intriguing study, a small study, there are only 40 kids, some surveys and, certainly, just because you your child had a head lag doesn't mean they'll become autistic and i want to make it clear but, we are desperate to find a way to screen and i think that is what this is about, the sooner you find the answer and diagnose them you can intervene and they have better outcomes and that is really what is going on with autism, the numbers are on the rise because we are screening them more and parents are reporting them more, and instead of catching them at the age of 4, if you catch them at 6 months you have a better outcome. but this is one example, there are a lot of social things parents need to pay attention to, are they responding to their names, moving their head when you call them, interacting or playing are lone by themselves? behavioral patterns, hand-clapping or walking and certain moves, that is not normal and othe

propensity to become an addict is genetic. there's no one single addiction gene, a whole bunch of them. but the variance of things like dopamine resenters that make you more likely to be an addict also give you a personality that's normality-seeking, risk-taking and compulsive. well, it turns out that novelty-seeking, risk-taking and compulsive are traits that can serve you extraordinarily well in your life. we've just described steve jobs, for example, right? so those same traits that can make you an addict can also serve you well, and that's part of the reason why they don't just disappear. .. affect of the woman's brain when she is an love and how can -- and can't she control it. so oxytocin is a hormone that is released in both women's and men's brains. in women and men it is released immediately after orgasm and is involved in that very warm, bonding feeling in the post orgasmic afterglow. it is not actually involved in orgasm itself. oxytocin is also very strongly released in women with their breast feeding. and so the n

narrator: these individuals have a genetic disorder called usher syndrome. each was born with hearing loss, often complete deafness, and all have retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that causes slow, progressive loss of vision. the typical case, ok, is one, a son or a daughter, originally diagnosed as having a hearing loss and then eventually within several years later, usually as a preteen or teen, diagnosed with the retinitis pigmentosa, and the family is thunderstruck because there's nobody else in the family with a hearing loss. there's nobody else in the family with any kind of visual problems other than grandma, who had cataracts. so, how could this happen? narrator: paul molloy has usher syndrome. he is profoundly deaf and legally blind. he and his wife, who is also deaf, have two children who are hearing and sighted. paul lives on long island and commutes daily to manhattan, where he works at columbia university. paul learned he had usher syndrome while attending college when he was 19 years old. at this point in his life, he has only a pinhole of visi

here in his lab, scientists search for links between rare, unknown diseases and genetics.f his patients, he suspects christine davidson's own genetic make-up may be at the root of her illness. >> gahl: do you have a brother, sister? >> davidson: yeah, i have two brothers that are totally healthy, and two sisters that do have health problems. >> gahl: but not this? so you have four siblings, and your dad, all of them are available for blood from if we need it? >> davidson: yeah. >> logan: as part of her evaluation, christine must undergo a week of intense testing here at the clinical center of the national institutes of health. dr. gahl has a small staff and a small budget, $3.5 million out of the billions the government spends on medical research here. so what's unique about what you do here? >> gahl: well, we think there are a couple of things. for one, we... we don't take insurance. and that allows us to see patients for a week at a time as in-patients, and get done within one week what will often take a year or two on the outside. but the second thing is that we're able

if her mother is italian and her father is japanese which would make her half and half the genetic defect would come to the father then things would have to happen if they grew up in california. he grew up in pasadena which means he would be inturned. things start to happen without you looking at it from the beginning when writing a story but as you develop the characters and the year and the situation and the stories a father would tell a daughter. all this came out the camps, what happened. what he hoped for. what he wished for. all the stories he tells the daughters. some of them would have to cover that interment time and a lot is what happened from my research. all that went in the book. does that answer your question? it's not that i purposely said, now i will advocate this. but if a story line covers a certain aspect of history that you tell it to the greatest truth you can. you know, you talk about the situation and if you inhabit the characters, hopefully, in the right way you try to feel hathey would feel. >> thank you. >> we started reading your book in my classroom a couple of

approves any of these genetically engineered fish. so i start my comments by saying i am not looking to pull the plug on the f.d.a. i am not looking to insert congress's judgment into the f.d.a. process. i am asking that when we are talking about a -- basically a new fishery for a modified salmon, i'm asking that the agency that is tasked with our fisheries have some role in what is moving forward. so let me give you a little bit of background in terms of what we're talking about with this genetically engineered fish, this franken fish. this is -- this would be a fish, an atlantic salmon that has d.n.a. spliced from a chinook salmon with that of what they call an ocean pout, which is some kind of an eel type of a fish that apparently is in colder waters. but the technology that f.d.a. is looking at that would allow for this genetic engineering would essentially provide for a fish that would grow to market size in about half the time of a conventional salmon. so, in other words, a salmon out in the wild takes about 30 months to gain fu

they say wheat that's been genetically modified repel insects. but they strow contaminate it unless it's stopped. they said they respect the need to gather knowledge. >> two men from wales have been fined $1,000 australian dollars for stealing a penguin named dirk. we report from sidney. >> early morning and a group of friends with a hangover awake to find a penguin in their living room. >> i can't believe the penguin was there in the apartment. >> a ferry penguin called dirk. taken one night last month after they slipped past security at sea world. the men later panicked and dropped dirk in a canal. now two of those believed to be from south wales have been fined $1,000 or about $600 pounds for stealing him. speaking at the time, one of the men said they meant no harm. >> we are sorry for the time lost searching for dirk. you know? and -- >> the theme park, too, was relieved to get back dirk in one piece. >> it's 7 years old and never experienced things like wide-open spaces so we're very happy to see dirk back with his mates. >> he is fine afte

two patients with a genetic condition were fitted with a wireless device in april and now they can detect light and even find white objects on a black background. >> we are working together with greta implant -- retina implant, which is a german company. this device has the ability to restore vision to patients who are completely blind from a genetic disease that affects mainly younger people. the device itself is very much like very electronicsfilm that we implant in the back of the eye. we have a device that is 1500 pixels, similar to a rudimentary camera. the patients are able to use the device to see light and dark and make out basic parliamentary images. we are doing a clinical trial together with king's college in london. we want to know more about the device. want to know what the limitations are as far as the patients' use of the device and what the resolution is vacancy. we hope that we can then feed back to the company and help them develop more complicated devices in the future. we want to know how usefuls the how find the device and what they can use it for in terms of their v

. >>> it looks as though california voters will decide whether genetically engineered food should havecially bells. the campaign says it has collected 970,000 signatures to qualify an initiative for the november ballot. modified ingredients have been on store shelves since 1994, found in 80% of processed foods. >> it needs to be clearly stated, genetically engineered on the front or back of the package. for produce that not sold in a package, it needs to be clearly indicated at the grocery store, somewhere. >> one of the largest biocrop companies says labeling modified ingredients will mislead consumers into thinking products are not safe when they are. the fda says the crops pose no greater threat than conventional foods. >>> stop a second now and check this out, you see birds fly by, then they get sucked into the plane's engine during takeoff from jfk. the passenger is now in trouble. passengers are supposed to have all electronic devices turned off. grant says he took the video because he thought the flight was doomed. >> didn't do this on the camera, i did it on an ipad. propped th

. >> even though they found that people are genetically pre predisposed to be it?ly pre disposed to alcoholism, but i manage to hold it back a little bit. >> you manage? >> you weren't managing well during the commercial break. >> it is one of the facts that we all know is true. >> i totally disagree with you on this. >> first grader suspended for sexual harassment. gavin, you made a great point on this, but the school is actually making it sexual. can we add the parents on the list of people not acquitting themselves well? the kid got in trouble for doing the same thing, but it takes until the second time where the mom says "i guess i should tell him -- what this really means so he doesn't say it again. jay but i have kids and i said things like, the next person that says but is getting a 10-minute timeout. and then they say -- but. they have tourrette's. "tropic thunder" was a movie where they say you never go full retard. they were making fun of an idiot that was saying stuff like that. they had kids with downs out there protesting, and these kids were told, thi

to be about 80 percent of the variances is predictable by family history and genetics, and these are where they do identical twins reared apart which is the best way to separate nature from nurture, next to autism, it is the, bipolar is the most genetic illness in psychiatry, it still requires a trigger and once it is triggered like the first episode in bipolar and this might occur when you are 17 or 18, once it is triggered the brain is changed and you follow that patient over several episodes, by the third or fourth episode it doesn't need much of a trigger at all, it seems to have taken on a life of its own and then there is high think recurrent you any polar, they don't have depression but a need for long-term treatment, preventative treatment and focus a lot on treating the actual depression, that is in front of us but perhaps there is much more importance in the long run about adequate ways to prevent something. and there, is you know discussion now about could you detect this stuff really early and perhaps treat a child before they have their first episode is one of th the eme

it's actually genetic. more people are inclined to get this than others. know who you are.ou're in the group. warm thetop o the top of your m. i'm not one that believes using medication is the way to go here. this is only a 30-second experience. not pleasant, but it can be avoided. >> worth it. >> for rocky road. >> thanks, guys. >> thank you. >> nice to see you. have a great week. >> happy mother's day. >> thank you very much. >>> all right. if you have questions for the doctors, they love to get your e-mails. in fact, that brain freeze one i think came from one of our viewers. just send them an e-mail to housecall@foxnews.com. for more information about today's house call or any of our previous shows with the doctors, log onto fox news.com/house call to check out all their

the wallace genetic foundation and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. >> this week on "to the contrary" first, republican women shift focus. then, men choose 'pink collar' jobs. behind the headlines: models for fair working conditions. hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, gop women create a new caucus. republican women in the house are shifting their focus from soci issues to the economy. house republicans launched the "women's policy committee," a new caucus to showcase female lawmakers. most of the 24 house republican women are members and released a video to share how they are "working for you." >> teed republican women in congress are making a real difference. >> we're working together to create jobs, reduce spending, help small businesses and put health care decisions back in to your hands. >> speaker of the house john boehner praised the caucus members saying: "these aren't just leaders on 'women's issues.' these are women leaders on a

through is also a genetic set point to happiness.an interview someone who is very wealthy and successful, and they're the most miserable person in the world. why their genetics. >> i do have a hard time believing you can measure happiness throughout the society. but we have been through a cataclysm. the nation went through a stress recession foreclosures, loss of employment, self of debt. as we're starting to come through it there is a sense of resurgence. >> i got through something that i never thought i could get through. i'm resilient. i'm hopeful, and i i have what it takes to get through the dark thames. but basically nobody is happy throughout the day. it's really a place you aim to visit for often than not. >> can i go out on a limit and say people who watch more cable are happier. >> there is a study that people who watch television are happier happier. >> and cable news in particular. >> i think more people are taking more anti-depressant medication. >> you're now talking as a serious doctor. there is an increased prescripti

and arguments about the theories of genetics of old truism that agrees, that was overlooked. i decided to simply look and call attention which has been traced through social issues are not just in insects, but it happens always the same way in the same time, no exception we are whereas in its consisted -- evolution is actually in the real sense that each side in the confluence of what is going to evolve, what is there in a particular environment in which the evolution occurs. so they all went the same, rather typical way to follow, a rare route to one point were solitary individuals, still solitary or small group which was very built to last, and expensive mast which of the solitary female defendants in which she were another little group goes for an fine food and brings it to the master feed the young progressively until they grow up and are ready to disperse. when you reach that stage, every case, no exception, with every small step you can go to social society and that is what happened. so it comes to the question when i saw that and i thought that was going to investigate

the wallace genetic foundation and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. first, minority is the new majority. then, women and combat. behind the headlines: american foreign service officers in beijing. >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, the changing u.s. population. for the first time in the country's history, most newborns are being born to families of color. new census bureau data show that last year just more than 50% of americans up to the age of one were black, hispanic or other minority groups. that's up from just below 50% from the year before. the largest and fastest growing minority group in the country is hispanics. non-hispanic whites will be outnumbered in the u.s. by the year 2042. one of the biggest factors in this demographic change is age. whites are the oldest group with median age over 42, while hispanics' median age of 28 places them in their prime childbearing years. what's the most important political issue congresswoman norton affected by