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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.'"
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.
So my body has built in DRM?!
Monstar L
Does this mean that DNA has DRM?
Personally, I think it's God's version of Sudoku.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
I'll bet it is controlled by an Active Directory installation.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
Only Go^H^Han intelligent designer could have implemented DNA with private and protected data. This sort of thing just can't randomly 'evolve'.
Any software problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection.
So apparenlty we are a software problem.
have been discovered to be eighty units long and oriented face down, nine edge first.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
I have a lot of good code, ready for re-use!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Hidden message deciphered in nucleosomes: WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.
New Code Discovered in DNA
b-e-s-u-r-e-t-o-d-r-i-n-k-y-o-u-r-o-v-a-l-t-i-n-e
Everybody knows there's a hidden code in our DNA... Leonardo DaVinci put it there!
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
I am just waiting for the new book due out soon.... Men are Linux, Women are OSX... I guess that the gay and lesbian population are different versions of windows?
Nah, they just run the other os in a virtual machine.
With much fear, surprise, and surprise for some of the scientists, they began to read the new code... it began:
......
#!/usr/bin/perl -ane
One scientist looked at the other, and said "This explains everything!"
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
If you play my genes backwards, you hear a car accident and then someone says "Paul is dead. Paul is dead."
-- I have monkeys in my pants.
I would say it the other way around. Men are OS X and Women are Linus. (Men are easier to understand, logical. Women on the other hand, require a lot of time massaging and learning just the right way to interact in order to get what you want out of them, and even then sometimes the outcome is unexpected, and requires more massaging.
Self proclaimed wannabe geek. You know how it is. Most of us who read this stuff probably fit in that category.
Yeah, you are right. With women if their dependencies aren't met then they shut down on you and you get NOTHING out of them.... I agree..