>> about an article coming out in Nature Genetics, this
>> suggests that a single change in a gene shifts wax
>> from a "wet" to a "dry" form of ear wax.
>
> Not surprisingly, Japanese scientist have isolated another way in which 
> they are different from Westerners.


It's a gene that causes the difference?  I thought maybe it was diet.  Since 
I've moved here and started eating more japanese food I've found my ear wax 
has turned more towards the dry side.  Unless.....maybe you do actually dry 
up as you age.

Doug H.