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Biologie

The source code of life

Bioinformatics, right? Using computational methods from the tool-belt of informatics to study biology is a thing. And it’s not just some thing. It’s one of the things nowadays, as it lets us process increasing amounts of data, helps us find otherwise unnoticeable connections in the big mess that is nature and can even simulate biological […]

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Biologie

Egoismus liegt in deiner DNA

A couple of years ago, while preparing for my prospective Bachelor thesis project, a term caught my eye that I had never read before: ‘selfish DNA’. We humans are really good at ascribing human attributes to other things, aren’t we? Fairy tales are the best demonstration of this. There you can find the ‘bad’ wolf, […]

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