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It has been known for quite some time that cold blooded animals live longer when they are in a cold environment. Apparently, a cold tempera...

Control of biological mechanisms starts with modifying the action of genes. Genetics provides the blueprint for the production of all the c...

Men and women are different at heart; not figuratively, but literally. It is known that there are functional differences between the physio...

All life forms on earth are based on DNA, the building blocks that hold the information that cells need to produce the necessary proteins t...

After homosexuality was recognized as a natural phenomenon in the scientific world, researchers have begun looking at the origins of same-s...

Sensitivity towards pain is not the same in all humans. Some of us are more sensitive to painful stimuli, while others are less affected. I...

Our bodies, and those of other animals, consist of many cells that all interact with each other in order to acquire the necessary complexit...

Our heart pumps around blood by beating around 50-60 times per minute. It is controlled by electrical signals that come from the brain, and...

Altruism is a form of behaviour thought only to exist in animals that are highly intelligent, such as us human beings. It is defined as hav...

In various animals, including humans, the DNA sequence is completely known. That means we know exactly, on average, how a genome is built u...

In 2003, the first ever complete sequence of the human genome was published. This marked a huge milestone in biology and has lead to lots o...

Our tools to analyze the DNA of living beings has rapidly improved in the last decade, which has resulted in scientists unravelling the gen...

Organ transplantation has the potential to save people's lives. One of the major hurdles, in addition to actually acquiring the necessa...

It is common knowledge that unhealthy behaviour during pregnancy can be harmful to the unborn child. Therefore, many prospective mothers qu...

Some people have the misfortune to be born with a disease or disability. Such congenital diseases are often of a genetic origin, which mean...

In 2003, scientists presented the first complete sequence of the human genome, comprising over 6 billion individual DNA building blocks. Of...

In the past, psychological diseases were often regarded as something that cannot be explained on a biological level. Advances in our knowle...

DNA is normally shaped like a double helix, which basically looks similar to a spiralling staircase. By building DNA in this particular way...

Living beings almost exclusively use DNA to store information necessary to produce the building blocks for biological components. We human ...

Genes are individual packets containing instructions to produce a specific protein, and they form the foundation of life and evolution. A l...