Fruit bats can eat up to twice their body weight in fruit a day. But their genes and cells evolved to process all that sugar without any heath consequences − a feat drug developers can learn from.
When just one of the thousands of microRNAs in people go awry, it can cause diseases ranging from heart disease to cancer.
Cranberries add color and acidity to Thanksgiving menus, but they also have many interesting botanical and genetic features.
From math to evolutionary game theory, looking at cancer through different lenses can offer further insights on how to approach treatment resistance, metastasis and health disparities.
Genetic testing can help take the guesswork out of finding the right treatment. For certain diseases. To an extent.
Despite decades of starts and stops, new treatments and key genetic discoveries are giving researchers great hope for slowing or eventually preventing Alzheimer’s disese.
We can predict hair and eye colour with reasonable accuracy from DNA, but other characteristics are being investigated.
Of the many qualities that make the zebrafish a model organism, the fact that it shares 70% of the genes humans have makes it an ideal candidate for developmental biology research.
Many of the amino acids that make up proteins are encoded by genetic material in more than one way. An information theorist explains how principles of nature may account for this variance.
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