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Cancer, give people a fighting chance
The cells of the human body have a life span of 2 weeks to 15 years. To ensure the continuity of the human body, they duplicate and then die. This is written into the DNA. Hormones trigger DNA functions. There are a hundred thousand billion cells in the human body. Every day, 50 billion cells…
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We are just vehicules to ensure the gene’s immortality
We are just vehicules to ensure the gene’s immortality – “Robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes”. “Different sorts of survival machine appear very varied on the outside and in their internal organs. An octopus is nothing like a mouse, and both are quite different from an oak tree. Yet in their fundamental…
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In yogurt we trust
CRISPR-Cas9 A single shot to cure a disease that today requires lifelong medication costing 10k USD per year. – The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 – Emmanuelle Charpentier & Jennifer A. Doudna: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/press-release/ – MIT technology Day 2017: Feng Zhang’s speech : https://youtu.be/UedmjollafY via @YouTube – Feng Zhang named James and Patricia Poitras Professor in NeuroscienceCRISPR…