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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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Alzheimer’s drug puts journalists’ judgment to test
How did the media do in covering news that a new drug appeared to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease for up to three years – a result never achieved before – but only in a handful of patients...? Alzheimer’s drug puts journalists’ judgment to test, published on the blog of Association of healthcare journalists - Jul. 19th, 2012 by Judith Graham [online]
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