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New Code Discovered in DNA?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-needed-more-than-one dept.

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.'"

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  1. Post to piss off conservatives by aussersterne · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Post to piss off conservatives by WilliamSChips · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  2. Re:Midichlorians? by OSS_ilation · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Precisely. by n2art2 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    people who also complain about people who post AC are no better then those they post about.

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  4. Re:Precisely. by Fordiman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  5. Re:Survival of the Fitness to Print by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Moderation -1
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