Chromosomal breaks are the most harmful damage for cells. If they are not repaired, they block the duplication and segregation of chromosomes, stop the growth cycle and cause cell death. These breaks appear frequently in tumour cells and are produced spontaneously during the replication of genetic material. To be ableRead More →
Mice born blind have shown significant improvement in vision after undergoing a new gene therapy developed by a team of Japanese scientists. The results were published on January 24th in Nature Communications. This new method is an alternative strategy of gene supplementation, which involves supplementing the defective gene, such asRead More →
In 1972, the geneticist Susumu Ohno formalized the term “junk DNA” to describe DNA that do not encode protein sequences or non-coding DNA. In 2000, scientists presented the Human Genome Project confirming that around 98% of the human genome had no apparent function. Therefore, only about 2 percent of DNARead More →
Darwin said that humans and monkeys have a common ancestor (around 5-10 million years ago), freaking out creationists by the fact that humans are apes. Therefore, humans sit on the same branch of the evolutionary tree as great ape species, such as chimpanzees, our closest living primate relative. By comparingRead More →
