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4 days ago · Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Can cause blood infections and pneumonia. Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Causes tuberculosis. Listeria, salmonella, and Escherichia coli (E. coli): Foodborne bacteria that can cause infections, illness, or typhoid. Streptococcal: Can cause strep throat. Staphylococcus: Can cause staph infections.
2 days ago · A mutation is a change in a DNA sequence. Mutations can result from DNA copying mistakes made during cell division, exposure to ionizing radiation, exposure to chemicals called mutagens, or infection by viruses.
4 days ago · Disease, any harmful deviation from the normal structural or functional state of an organism, generally associated with certain signs and symptoms.
2 days ago · The central dogma of molecular biology is a theory that states that genetic information flows only in one direction, from DNA to RNA to protein.
2 days ago · In late 2021, The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology examined 53 top papers about cancer published between 2010 and 2012 and showed that among studies that provided sufficient information to be redone, the effect sizes were 85% smaller on average than the original findings.
4 days ago · Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), variation in a genetic sequence that affects only one of the basic building blocks—adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), or cytosine (C)—in a segment of a DNA molecule and that occurs in more than 1 percent of a population.
3 days ago · Parasitism, relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism. Parasites may be characterized as ectoparasites, which live on the body surface of the host, or endoparasites, which live within a host’s body.
