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What is the difference between a normal somatic human cell and a HeLa cell?
The human body contains more than one hundred thousand billion cells, which can be divided in two categories, if we look at it in a simplified way. One of them is somatic (derived from the greek...
Read More...Do methyl groups that are attached to DNA get copied in DNA replication?
Yes they do! And this ability of methyl groups to be copied at each round of DNA replication is what makes DNA methylation "epigenetics": the information carried by these methyl groups is...
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DNA: three letters that spell out a discovery made 50 years ago
Roger Highfield reports on the greatest biological discovery of the past century
Published in the Telegraph: 28 Feb, 2003 [online]
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