If someone asked you to imagine a psychopath, who would you picture? Many of us might conjure an image of a violent criminal who will do anything without remorse to
In healthy cells, a protein called MYC helps guide the process of transcription, in which genetic information is converted from DNA into RNA. But when cells turn cancerous, they start
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As a descendent of an indigenous Amazonian tribe, Maria Astolfi was concerned about research she conducted as a graduate student at UC Berkeley involving an extract of a plant long