stackyFACTSDespite what comic books taught you about glowing radiation and superpowers, the overwhelming majority of genetic mutations do absolutely nothing. You are walking around with thousands of unique mutations right now, and the most extraordinary thing they do is subtly alter a meaningless protein.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Health →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
The longer you wait to pass on your genetic legacy, the more molecular typos you accumulate to hand down to the next generation. It is a cynical biological…
Discover more
Geneticists can actually use the steady ticking of DNA mutations as a biological clock to trace our ancestry. It is deeply humbling to realize that our…
Discover more
Evolution is slowly realizing our modern jaws are way too small, leading to an increasing number of lucky people being born completely without problematic…
Discover more
Your entire biological stability heavily relies on receiving exactly two copies of every single chromosome, no more and no less. If the cellular sorting…
Discover more
Reproduction is far less random than it appears under a microscope. Unfertilized female eggs intentionally release potent chemical trails to guide sperm…
Discover more
We treat all radiation like a death sentence, but biology is way weirder than that. In places like Ramsar, Iran, residents absorb massive doses of natural…
Discover more