Researchers Nearly Double the Size of Worker Ants

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have nearly doubled the size of a handful of Florida ants by chemically modifying their DNA, rather than by changing its encoded information. The work may help explain how the insects—despite their high degree of genetic similarity—grow into the different varieties of workers needed in a colony.

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Re:What is their reasoning for this science ?

[itzly]

Expanding our knowledge.

Rather than what?

[TechyImmigrant]

The initial paragraph of TFA and the summary both fail to say what was done instead of modifying the coded information.

They are actually talking about modifying the methylation of the DNA rather than the base pair sequence. How this doesn't count as coded information is beyond me.