Mike Lynch and Bruce Walsh are working on a "sequel" to Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Thanks to the glory of the internet you can read draft chapters of Evolution and Selection of Quantitative Traits in PDF form.
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Over at Inside Higher Ed, William Durden resorts to satire in response to the Spellings commission report:
News from Inside Higher Ed: Apparently there's a movement afoot in U.S. colleges and universities to add math requirements and add "quantitative reasoning" content to non-mathematics courses.
Over at the Sandwalk, Larry has a video of Berlinski pompously denouncing the idea that "cows evolved into whales".
Ellman reagent can be used to quantitate the amount of free thiol present in a protein or other molecule:
RE: This and previous topic 'This is democracy: stupid humans'.
The following [and more] is on CBSnews.com [Health and WebMD]:
"A gene called dysbindin-1 (DTNBP1) may be tied to intelligence, scientists report in Human Molecular Genetics.
The scientists studied a region of a particular chromosome. That chromosome region is where the DTNBP1 gene is located.
The DTNBP1 gene has previously been associated with schizophrenia, write the researchers. They included Katherine Burdick, Ph.D., of the psychiatry research department of the Zucker Hillside Hospital, which is part of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System."
From [Burdick, K. Human Molecular Genetics, May 15, 2006; Vol. 15: pp. 1563-1568.]
The first volume is probably one of my favorite textbooks. I'm using it now in a quantitative genetics class I'm taking. It seems like they have been working volume 2 since 1998. I hope it comes out soon.