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‘DNA Fossils’, ancient mtDNA preserved in the nuclear genome: witnesses of human evolution milestones
Fragments of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are known to get inserted into the DNA of the cell nucleus (i.e., our main genome) and to form NUMTs, i.e. dysfunctional sequences, nuclear pseudogenes of the mtDNA. Hundreds of NUMTs have
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) diagnostics better to do in cultivated than native cells
Cancer is an age associated disease. In Western countries with people having longer life expectancies than e.g. 100 years ago, this means at present that 1-2% of those individuals are confronted with the diagnosis of leukemia during
