We Are All Constantly Mutating – and That's a Good Thing

(newyorker.com)

2 points | by mitchbob 14 hours ago ago

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  • mitchbob 14 hours ago

    > Each time a cell divides, its DNA is copied, but mistakes inevitably creep in. The adult body, after all, contains some thirty trillion cells, about four million of which are replaced in any given second, and the human genome is made up of six billion letters of DNA. “By some estimates you acquire trillions of new mutations a day...”

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