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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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Flavor is price of Scarlet Hue of tomatoes, study finds
A gene mutation that breeders latched onto because it makes a tomato uniformly red also stifles genes that contribute to its taste, researchers say. [online]
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