A Little Cancer in All of Us
Cancer. The thought of it can be absolutely terrifying. Moreso than heart disease, stroke, or Alzheimer’s. Maybe because its diagnosis often seems so out of the blue, or because we […]
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Is Eukaryotic DNA Still Living in a Prokaryotic World? How Changing Our Labels Can Change the Way We Think about Genetics
A “housekeeping” gene is a gene which is constitutively or constantly expressed and is necessary for basic cellular functions. “Contingency” genes, on the other hand, produce gene products which are, […]
Modularity: Dude, How Cool Is That?
Regardless of whatever were the first steps in the origins of life, there is little doubt that the modularity of proto-life’s chemical parts has been a foundational element to Self-replication […]
One Scientist’s Junk DNA Is Another Scientist’s Treasure
“[The ENCODE scientists have] . . . reported the elephant in the room and then chosen to otherwise ignore it.” ~Prof. John Mattick, Director of the Garvan Institute of Medical […]
Move Over, Proteins – Science Says it’s an RNA World Now. But is it?
Hello, folks. Back in September, a seminal group of works were published in Nature and Science which revealed that contrary to our once-protein-centric view of genetics, the majority of gene […]
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