food is medicine

Nearly 100% of cervical cancers are caused by persistent infection with high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV) . Because we know the cause, we have developed an arsenal of prevention strategies—from…

Imagine two identical twins born to a consanguineous couple—first cousins who share a significant portion of their DNA. Both twins inherit the exact same disease-causing recessive mutation from their parents.…

Imagine a library containing 20,000 books. Each book is a gene. In most libraries, a damaged page here or there rarely causes a problem because the second copy of the…