Mitochondria & the Mother’s Curse
Many of my readers are probably familiar with the fact that we inherit our mitochondria, those little power houses of the cell, from our mothers. In fact, the mitochondria of […]
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The Bionic Cell: How Metal Ions Make the Cellular World Go Round
Metal ions. DNA just doesn’t work right without them. Or much of biology for that matter. Back in the 1980s, Graham Cairns-Smith postulated that, rather than nucleic acids forming the […]
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