Researchers find out cause of mutations that are not in genetic material
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 12:54
in Biology & Nature
Proteins are like bricks that form our cells and they are built by the orders given by our genetic material, DNA. In human diseases, eventually DNA alterations modify proteins and they don't do their normal function, either by excess or defect. But recently scientists have started to find alterations of proteins without an obvious damage of the gene that produces them.