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Stories about: protein chain

Genetic Mutation Causes Epilepsy and Mental Retardation A team of researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva, Israel, have found a genetic defect which caused progressive mental retardation and epilepsy, starting at infancy.This progressive brain atrophy is caused by the production of the 21st amino acid, calle... 13 October 2010 04:49 GMT Protein Chains Can Regulate Themselves Scientists discovered that several protein chains inside the human body have the ability to condition their own evolution, which seems to hold the key to understanding how living organisms adapt to natural selection. This find could explain how people evolved to the point where they took over the planet and became th... 12 November 2008 06:59 GMT