List of posts with the tag: Gene

One of these days we will see a similar scene but no thanks to Photoshop and multiple photos of the same person, it will be a real photo thanks to the medical advances in genetic cloning, or a new Octomom x 2

Cigarette smoke causes genetic damage within minutes, not years, after inhalation into the lungs, U.S. researchers say. Stephen S. Hecht of the Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota and colleagues say evidence indicates harmful substances in tobacco smoke (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) play a role in causing lung cancer but the study is the…

For all the Mammals, nature and evolution preferred scarring over regeneration when we have wounds or limbs loss. Scientists found that the absence of the gene P21 in mice gives them the ability to regenerate lost or damaged tissue. This investigation is taking place at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and researchers…