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Vaping can damage DNA, just like smoking tobacco. Scientists have warned that vaping affects the body at the level of genes. This is evidenced by a recent study that included 3,500 cell samples from tobacco smokers and found significant DNA changes associated with lung cancer and tumors. Vaping harms the body at the DNA level […]
A young Paris-based company called Biometry has introduced a memory card that looks like a bank card. The new product is designed to store information in DNA. The new memory card allows the owner to store data in synthetic DNA. The volume is 1 KB, and the term is up to 150 years. You can […]
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have tested livestock for resistance to viruses to prevent dangerous mutations that could pose a threat to humans. More than eight million poultry have been killed or destroyed by outbreaks in the UK since 2021. However, scientists warn that more work is needed to eradicate any possibility that the […]
It has been 20 years since the completion of the Human Genome Project, in which scientists have sequenced the human genome in 10 years. Despite the fact that this event is usually referred to as the decoding of the entire genome, in fact, the project sequenced 92% of DNA nucleotide sequences. The day before, an […]