[Photo: JM Cameron] November 24, 2009 marked the marked the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the book with the highest impact in my life to date: Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Not to trivialize this moment, but I like to think the publication was planned in conjunction with the oncoming winter and…
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Your Body is a Fortress, Part 5 – Your DNA Suitcase
There’s a lot to talk about when mentioning the word, ‘DNA.’ Lots. One aspect of DNA that I came oh so very close to specializing in (but not quite) is how all that genetic information is packaged. Think about this: stretched end-to-end, you have about six feet of DNA in every cell of your body….