Why Do Women Have a Silent X Chromosome?
March 17, 2025
Major new discovery: The female inactivated X chromosome can be reactivated.
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Your Body Constantly Fights Cancer
December 21, 2021
Sometimes cancer cells take hold, but not for want of constant surveillance and combat by the immune system.
Is Cancer an Example of Evolution?
September 21, 2021
Does everything evolve, even cancer? Actually, cancer research is based on intelligent design, not evolution.
Complexity of Cancer-Stopping Gene Regulation Described
January 12, 2021
The molecular dance between molecules that prevent cancer in dividing cells is a performance that defies evolution.
Cancer Research Is Based on Intelligent Design, Not Evolution
June 2, 2020
To Understand Cancer Requires Acceptance of Irreducible Complexity
Cells Have Dimmer Switches
June 30, 2011
A metaphor has been emerging among biophysicists: cells have rheostats or dimmer switches. The metaphor implies that some cellular regulatory processes are not just on or off; they have continuous ranges of values that can be finely tuned for the need of the organism. It's been years since our first report that gene expression is […]
Human Genome “Infinitely More Complex” Than Expected
April 5, 2010
Ten years after the Human Genome Project was completed, now we know: biology is “orders of magnitude” more complicated than scientists expected.