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Can mental or emotional stress damage our DNA? An experiment has shown that the presence of gray hair means that the melanocyte stem cells in hair follicles – that ones that become melanocytes that give color to hair -  have badly damaged DNA. In response, our body forces these DNA damaged stem cells into early…

Video games make all sorts of activities fun. Cooking Mama makes cooking fun. Harvest Moon makes farming fun. Lode Runner makes self-torture fun. Can a video game make biochemistry fun?

Try DNA Heroes, a flash game that combines Guitar Hero with…well, actually nothing. It’s just GH with electronic music, and instead of notes you get amino acids scrolling down the…