2022-2023 - GENÇOMÜ

Fenilketonüri (PKU) Hastalığı

2022-2023, Türkçe İçerik / Ozan Can BEKTAŞ / 18 Mart 2023

İnsanoğlu hastalıklara çevresel faktörler ile etkileşimi sonucu yakalanabileceği gibi genetik olarak da belirli hastalıklara yatkınlık göstererek, doğumu itibariyle de çeşitli hastalıklara sahip olabilmektedir [1]. Henüz bir tedavisi bulunmayan PKU hastalığı kalıtsal (otozomal resesif) bir hastalık olup, yeni dünyaya gelmiş bebeklerde ilk birkaç ay içerisinde semptom göstermemektedir [2]. Birkaç ayın ardından ise vücutta biriken fenilalanin sebebiyle […]

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Trichotillomania: İnability to Stop Pulling Hair

2022-2023, İngilizce İçerik / Batı YÜKSELOĞLU / 12 Mart 2023

You are about to take your biggest exam of the year. You have sweats coming out of your hand, you can feel your heart beating too fast. Suddenly you start to realize your leg is bouncing, on its own. You are not the one who’s doing it, yet it’s your body. Bouncing your leg made

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Drosophila Melanogaster as a Model Organism of Brain Diseases

2022-2023, İngilizce İçerik / Evrim Öykü ONAY / 11 Mart 2023

The widespread fruit fly for more than a century, Drosophila melanogaster has been utilized as a genetic model system. Drosophila has been used to develop a vast array of genetic innovations during the past century because they are easy to keep and reproduce quickly. Drosophila is a good model for research into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying development and illness

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Albinism in Plants

2022-2023, İngilizce İçerik / Celal Can VAROL / 5 Mart 2023

Albinism is a group of inherited situations that results in little or no pigment (hypopigmentation) in the eyes alone or the eyes, skin, and hair. Inheriting a changed copy of a gene that does not work agreeably is the cause of most types of albinism. Mutations in many genes were described in different types of

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Human Endogenous Retroviruses

2022-2023, İngilizce İçerik / Ezgi DEMİR / 4 Mart 2023

What are Retroviruses? Retroviruses are viruses that insert their DNA copy of their RNA genome into the DNA of the host cell they have invaded, resulting in changes in the cell’s DNA. Retroviruses basically use the host cells’ DNA to integrate themselves and use the cell’s machinery for replication1. What is an Endogenous Retrovirus? Endogenous

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