The human body is a complex machine, and when it suffers from an attack on its system by pathogenic microbes such as bacteria, it acts accordingly to find and eliminate the source of the infection and restore function back to…
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The Cell The cell is a basic building block for all living things, without it, life would not exist. Bacteria and the parasite that causes malaria consist of single cells, while plants and animals are made up of trillions of…
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Hope For the Future:Amid Concerns Over Security, Biobanks Are Valuable Resources In the Search For Cures With the advancement of research on the human genome in recent years, it isn’t surprising that people would like to use the newfound gene…
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The Golgi apparatus is a tiny, cellular organelle with a big job. Usually located near the nucleus, it is responsible for modifying, packaging, and distributing proteins and other macromolecules. In animal cells, there is usually only one Golgi apparatus, but…
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The cell membrane, or plasma membrane as it is sometimes called is possibly the most important aspect of the cell and without it life could not exist in any form. The membrane allows an organism to be enclosed and separated…
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Over the last 300 years, scientists estimate that more than 150 vertebrate species have become extinct. There was the dodo, the Tasmanian tiger, and most recently the black-horned rhino. Now, according to researchers at Australian National University, we may have…
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Ribosomes play a vital role in the continuation of life on this planet. Proteins consisting of amino acids are an essential component of life. Ribosomes are responsible for assembling these very important structures. Translation is the process by which ribosomes…
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In 1998 James Thomson produced the world’s first human stem cell line, which is a single stem cell that is manipulated to divide into new stem cell clones producing a stem cell line. Whilst this opened up a whole new…
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Membranes are thin sheets of tissue that cover, connect or protect organs in humans and proteins are bodily material that are, essentially, the building blocks of all cells. The human body is composed of various forms of cells clumped together…
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DNA is called the “ladder of life,” and rightly so. Every living organism on planet Earth has DNA as its hereditary molecule. What’s more, the code that DNA contains, in which every three bases is the code for a specific…
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