This blog was started as a collaboration between two iGEM teams (see post “What is iGEM”) with the goal of making biology as accessible and understandable as possible. Building on last week’s post, today we are going to introduce a…
Our cells are chimera
As described in our article about the origins of life, prokaryotes (cells without a nucleus) were surely the first living organisms on Earth. During the evolutionary process eukaryotes (cells with a nucleus) appeared as well. Many theories tried to…
Origins of life: Are we aliens?
What is the origin of life ? Day after day, scientific discoveries accumulate, allowing us to better understand our planet and our universe. The mapping of the human genome, the discovery of the Higgs Boson (the elementary particule that gives…
Vaccination : How does it work ?
There is no doubt that the majority of the population believes in the effectiveness and benefits of vaccination, and thus agrees with the scientific community. However, majority does not mean totality: in the United States, up to 9% of the…