by Sam Kneller | Nov 8, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
The number of genes in living organisms, humans, animals, flora does NOT correlate with intelligence. Some plants have many more genes than mankind. How do you explain that? One thing we can say for sure is that genes are certainly not the central focus of heredity. A...
by Sam Kneller | Nov 1, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
Epigenetics, the study of ‘junk genes’, has made science realize they actually regulate the genes themselves. They are at the origin of ‘gene expression’, turning genes ‘on’ and ‘off.’ We’ve discussed how DNA has a...
by Sam Kneller | Oct 25, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
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...
by Sam Kneller | Oct 18, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
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...
by Sam Kneller | Oct 11, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
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...
by Sam Kneller | Oct 4, 2016 | > Read Inventory otU online, 7. Human Life
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...
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