Quantum entanglement helps keep DNA together
Once in a while science produces theoretical work that has tantalizing possibilities but also raises a strong skeptical response. This is another way of saying that a theory has a certain amount of...
View ArticleSurprises from simulating Titan’s atmosphere
“That can’t be right.” These are terrible or wonderful words for a scientist. It’s that moment when they look at the results of an experiment and see something they truly did not expect, good or bad....
View ArticleDNA redundancy: Genetic sequence copies are more prevalent and important than...
Did you know that our DNA has many copies of some gene sequences, and that it is important? Not long ago and perhaps even now, neither did many genetic scientists. It’s been known in a general way that...
View ArticleEpigenetics and methylation: New DNA bases linked to protein
Adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine: These are the nucleobases, or just plain bases of DNA that in pairs called nucleotides carry the genetic code of life. There are four of them, right? At least...
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