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Together, the microbes living on the human body contain 4.4 million genes – this is the microbiome: the collective genomes of the microbiota. These genes collaborate in running our bodies alongside our 21,000 human genes. By that count, you are just half a per cent human.
Alanna Collen • 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
O genoma como uma máquina autorreplicadora coopta a fisiologia, o metabolismo, o comportamento e a identidade de uma célula, e o resultado é uma doença que muda de forma e, apesar de avanços significativos, desafia nossa capacidade de tratá-la ou curá-la.
Siddhartha Mukherjee • O gene: Uma história íntima (Portuguese Edition)
as we become more knowledgeable about where and when to intervene in life’s processes, we can start to think of life itself as something that can be redesigned. Efforts to do so systematically began with genetic engineering in the 1970s, but that typically only worked well for the simplest forms of life, such as bacteria. What’s more, it was limite
... See morePhilip Ball • How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology
Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19

The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
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Much of the local research in experimental biology, in spite of its seemingly “scientific” and evidentiary attributes, fails a simple test of mathematical rigor. This means we need to be careful of what conclusions we can and cannot make about what we see, no matter how locally robust it seems. It is impossible, because of the curse of dimensionali
... See morePaul Grewal • Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
Thus knowing the exact genome of Sars-Cov-2 enabled the scientists to model the structure of the entire virus—and most important, the spike proteins that stuck to its surface. They almost immediately realized that the novel coronavirus was a serious threat. Its spike proteins merged with a receptor found on the surface of many human cells. The rece
... See moreAlex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
read a great article of Marc’s in the Atlantic titled “Hacking the President’s DNA.”