So having high blood sugar doesnât mean that you ate a lot of table sugar and the sugar is now in your bloodstream; it means you ate a lot of carbohydrates (from any source) and the sugar (glucose) is now in your bloodstream. Any digestible carbohydrate can raise blood sugar, although some raise it higher and faster than others.
If a mutation alters junk DNA, it doesnât do any harm because the junk isnât doing us any good to begin with. If our genome was 80 percent functionalâthe figure batted around when the ENCODE project results first came outâthen we should be extinct.
Misguided DNA-Repair Proteins Caught in the Act. May 21, 2014 â Accumulation of DNA damage can cause aggressive forms of cancer and accelerated aging, so the bodyâs DNA repair mechanisms are normally key to good health. However, in some diseases the DNA repair ...