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From enzymes to muscle tissue, the DNA held within the nucleus of cells contains instructions for the production of every protein in your body. Mutations in these genomic blueprints, whether inherited or induced by damaging environmental agents (e.g toxins, UV radiation), can result in proteins becoming malformed and dysfunctional and ultimately give rise to disease. […]
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Image credit: Reversing Your Diabetes Today (CC0 1.0) Millions of people in the UK are living with Type 2 diabetes, resulting from the body’s inability to properly produce or respond to the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels, insulin. While Type 1 usually arises in childhood, Type 2 is associated with adults, especially those that […]
Continue ReadingScientists at Oxford, St Andrews, Bristol and The Max Plank Institute in Nijmegen, have identified a link between a network of genes, whose role is to influence growth of young embryos, and the characteristic known as left or right handedness. Handedness has been a social and cultural issue for thousands of years, with 70-95% of […]
Continue ReadingEvolution is far harsher to men than any militant feminist. Having said that, men are cheats. A developing zygote needs a certain amount of nutrients from the two sex cells (gametes) that have combined to form it. Yet sperm are tiny, and the majority of nutrition is provided by the female egg cell. Hence, the […]
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