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You likely know that you get half of your DNA from your mother and the other half from your father. It is this type of basic ...
Serge McGraw is in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7, Canada, and in the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, Montreal. Sarah ...
That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.
Cancer is a genetic disease caused by inherited or acquired DNA mutationsPersonalised medicine tailors treatment based on ...
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Scientists are trying to sequence the DNA of Leonardo da Vinci to identify if the remains at his interment site really are ...