"First, the infectious organism isn't a bacterium or virus at all--it's a cancer cell that originated in a Tasmanian devil, and then took on a life of its own as a distinct pathogen, transmitted between animals..."
"The Inner Life of a Cell, an eight-minute animation created in NewTek LightWave 3D and Adobe After Effects for Harvard biology students [...] the animation illustrates unseen molecular mechanisms and the ones they trigger..."
"The ENCODE consortium’s major findings include the discovery that the majority of DNA in the human genome is transcribed into functional RNA molecules and that these transcripts extensively overlap one another."
"Examples of protein music based on our final algorithm can be heard and viewed below. Huntington's disease is an example of a triplet repeat disorder in which an expansion of a repeated glutamine sequence causes the protein to lose its proper function."
""With this organism, we can take an intact DNA molecule, blast it into little pieces, and in five to six hours the organism is restored and growing normally again," Dr. Bagwell said."
"Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe — safer than most medicines prescribed every day."
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