Transposable elements also known as jumping genes have literally reversed our understanding of the immutable gene. We now know that genes possess the quality of ever-changing plasticity. I’m going to revisit the 98.5 percent of junk DNA that is anything but. The...
Stem Cells: Life starts with one cell and this one cell develops into 400+ different types of cells: Skin, gut, brain … and these stem cells do it all your life. They do it just in time … every time. As we discuss stem cells and dissect pieces of the...
Apoptosis is the programmed death of billions of cells in your body every day … even before birth. Without this death, there wouldn’t be life. Cells don’t live forever in the human body; they have different life spans based on the type and function of the...
Yes, you and I are an amalgam of these billions of billions of cells working together, each with its own cell life cycle integrated into this massive functioning ‘human body’ we call life. You have roughly thirty trillion red blood cells that circuit your...