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Maria Bergsland, PhD

A molecular biologist’s perspective, beyond oversimplification.

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Part 1: Do You Know the Signal That Tells Your Muscle Cells to Build?

The Leucine Threshold: When Does a Muscle Cell Begin to Build?

Part 2: Building a Human in Space and Time: How Biological Information Organizes Matter into a Human Being

How Gradients Are Translated into Polarity Along the Body Axis

Building a Human in Space and Time: How Biological Information Organizes Matter into a Human Being

Part 1: Stem Cell Competence

There Is Something About GLP-1 Agonists That Almost Nobody Talks About

A Molecular Biologist Explains Why Activating the Same Receptor Does Not Necessarily Produce the Same Signal

Why Some Women Struggle With Bioidentical Progesterone on HRT

The molecule may be identical, but route, concentration, metabolism and timing shape the biology.

What Is Genetic Variation, Really? Why Population Studies Can Miss Individual Biology

A molecular perspective on why population-level risk does not always capture individual biological vulnerability.

You Want to Understand Epigenetics? Can a Father's Lifestyle Influence His Future Children?

Part 3: What current research tells us about epigenetic inheritance through sperm.

You Want to Understand Epigenetics? Let's Take a Closer Look at the Molecular Level.

Part 2: How DNA methylation and histone modifications contribute to the epigenetic landscape.

You Want to Understand Epigenetics? I Can Help You, but We Need to Start With Gene Regulation.

Part 1. It may seem complicated, but I'll do my best not to oversimplify it.

From One DNA Mutation to Cancer: Everything That Must Go Wrong First

The biological filters standing between DNA damage and cancer