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The Crazy Biology

Since the end of the 1980s and the advent of molecular biology, then the beginning of the 2000s with the sequencing of whole genomes, modern tools have never ceased to amaze us and provide answers to questions that we didn’t even dare ask ourselves before: Why do elephants have fewer cancers than hu...

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Autor principal: Monget, Philippe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9602143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292655
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13101769
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spelling pubmed-96021432022-10-27 The Crazy Biology Monget, Philippe Genes (Basel) Essay Since the end of the 1980s and the advent of molecular biology, then the beginning of the 2000s with the sequencing of whole genomes, modern tools have never ceased to amaze us and provide answers to questions that we didn’t even dare ask ourselves before: Why do elephants have fewer cancers than humans? Why do humans have such big brains? How does a eukaryotic cell recognize a “foreign” DNA sequence? Are there molecular crossroads of incompatible functions? Can cells count each other? These fascinating questions have made biology in recent years almost crazy. MDPI 2022-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9602143/ /pubmed/36292655 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13101769 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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