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New Amino Acid Discovered
EricMargel writes: "As published in Science, researchers at the Ohio State University claim to have discovered the 22nd known amino acid, pyrrolysine, the first discovered since 1986." I hope rice and beans are still sufficient to get all the needed amino acids.
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Ah, but they are already taken. Like the IP-numbers of the old days.. Nature thought it wise to build some redundancy. Some popular amino acids have multiple encodings, so mutations can be meaningless. Plus you have the stop-codon of course.
I think an UTF8-like scheme would be safer, for future enhancements and the like.
The X-files already taught us there were more amino acids to be discovered. I just hope they find the 5th and 6th nucleotides again, so that there will be proof of extraterrestrials.
And whatever you do, don't let the smoking man get ahold of them, that's how they dissappeared the first time around. And no, he isn't dead. He obviously had the black army/CIA helicopters stage his death. What a drama queen.
Re, ...selenocysteine, which is also encoded for by a STOP codon ....
This sure sounds like a kluge. Who designed this system, anyway? They need to clean up their code.
Of course. And we've only found the redundant ones at this point.
64-22=42. QED.
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come on now, 64?
EVERYONE knows the number they're looking for is gonna end up being 42. every other pair will be unstable, and the meaning of like will be proven to be 42. and douglas adams will rise from the grave and lead us to salvation.
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