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Epigenetics and Transposons

Scott Kustes on 30 Jan 2008

One of the new words I picked up while reading Survival of the Sickest was transposon. Wikipedia describes transposons as:
sequences of DNA that can move around to different positions within the genome of a single cell, a process called transposition. In the process, they can cause mutations and change the amount of DNA in [...]

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What I’m Reading: Survival of the Sickest

Scott Kustes on 16 Dec 2007

Now that I’ve re-devoted my free time to reading, I’m burning through books at a pretty good clip. This past week, I read Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease. It was an interesting book, discussing the advantages that various diseases conferred on people throughout the ages and [...]

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