We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person

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• A_A@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  These studies are promising :

  The accumulation of DNA mutations in some cells over time can cause cancer, (…)
  It is a much greater challenge to sequence DNA from individual cells, because there are only two copies of the genome to work with, (…)

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Okay, I’m super far from a biological/genealogical scientist. What’s promising about that?

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    • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      … impossible to say right now, yet, I look at this as a new paradigm. Like, instead of looking at the animal kingdom and saying they are all animals, being able to distinguish between many different species, but for the body : the previous understanding was that our cells had the same genetic code and now the Horizon widens to show a whole new diversity we didn’t know about.
      i believe it’s the start of a new science.

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