New Code Discovered in DNA?

anthemaniac writes "The NY Times is reporting that scientists have found a second code in DNA that goes beyond the genes. The code is superimposed genetic information and 'sets the placement of the nucleosomes, miniature protein spools around which the DNA is looped. The spools both protect and control access to the DNA itself. The discovery, if confirmed, could open new insights into the higher order control of the genes, like the critical but still mysterious process by which each type of human cell is allowed to activate the genes it needs but cannot access the genes used by other types of cell.'"

Comments

Random error produces error control mechanism?

[geoffrobinson]

Error control mechanisms, at the very least, would very much run against the flow of blind Darwinian processes.

Yes, this discovery does not hurt the ID movement at all.

Re:Random error produces error control mechanism?

[OneSmartFellow]

...no scientific discovery will hurt the ID movement, since it has precisely nothing to do with science...

You obviously haven't been talking to the extremeley conservative Senator Rick Santorum, he thinks it does; and he is hell (pardon) bent on getting it taught as such !

Re:Some of this isn't terribly new

[DigiShaman]

That's Slashdot for you in that some people here think they know of a "better" solution against something that's worked for billions of years. It's called hubris. It runs rampant on this forum.