Central Dogma of Genetics May Not Be So Central

Amorymeltzer writes "RNA molecules aren't always faithful reproductions of the genetic instructions contained within DNA, a new study shows (abstract). The finding seems to violate a tenet of genetics so fundamental that scientists call it the central dogma: DNA letters encode information, and RNA is made in DNA's likeness. The RNA then serves as a template to build proteins. But a study of RNA in white blood cells from 27 different people shows that, on average, each person has nearly 4,000 genes in which the RNA copies contain misspellings not found in DNA."

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[MightyMartian]

No fucking kidding. That's two articles here in a single 24 hour period making moronic claims (the other being "We reproduced the Big Bang")

I think every journalist who wants to get into science reporting should have be forced to take a six month course to get them up to speed on current understandings in major fields (and by that, I mean, an understanding of what's happened in the last thirty to forty fucking years).

That RNA transcription doesn't always work might have been news half a century ago, but not since then. In other words, the journalist in question is either dishonest or a fucking retard, but in either case should be forced to dig ditches or test industrial chemicals' effects on digestion or something else that has nothing to do with writing.

For the record, all you fucking morons, no genetic process, whether at cell division, transcription or whatever is perfect. This has been known for literally decades. There is absolute nothing here to report.