By Elizabeth Landau
CNN

Swine flu may be inspiring fear worldwide, but for Stephan Zielinski of San Francisco, California, it inspired a song.

The genes underlying swine flu inspired one amateur musician to compose music based on it.

The virus has the classification H1N1 because it includes two key viral proteins, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). Zielinski took the [...]

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What makes a piano prodigy?

Have you ever wondered why some children are born with magnificent musical talents and some with devastating physical, mental and emotional handicaps? Much has been written about the latter but not nearly as much about the former. We know that musical talent tends to run in families. The study of [...]

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The work may al­so be a step to­ward re­veal­ing “the role of mu­sic in hu­man brain func­tion, hu­man ev­o­lu­tion and its rela­t­ion­ship to lan­guage,” they wrote, though they added it will take larg­er fol­low­up stud­ies to clar­i­fy this.
Sci­en­tists say they’ve found ap­prox­i­mate loca­t­ions in our ge­nome where genes af­fect­ing mu­si­cal tal­ent may lie, the re­sults [...]

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