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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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Fetal tests spur legal battle
New DNA sequencing technology that has spurred advances in epigenetics research is now being used to test for fetal DNA anomalies using mom's blood.
"A newborn industry based on non-invasive genetic testing turns combative".
27 June 2012, by Erika Check Hayden in Nature NEWS [online]
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