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Should some knowledge remain unknown?
3 posted on
02/27/2019 5:30:57 PM PST by
buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Great. Now see what codons they form, (among themselves or *with* the existing four bases), what they code *for*, and the relative affinitiees of different substrates one to another.
Oh, and how do they react to methylation?
4 posted on
02/27/2019 5:32:00 PM PST by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This could explain Nancy pelousy
5 posted on
02/27/2019 5:32:22 PM PST by
faithhopecharity
( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“It’s moving. It’s alive!!”
8 posted on
02/27/2019 5:39:13 PM PST by
Ken H
(2019 => The House of Representin')
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Interesting, with big implications in the data storage and retrieval biz. Not so much in life functions, though, at least not yet:
The researchers could potentially use their synthetic DNA to create novel proteins as well as RNA.
The problem is: do they code for anything? That is, do they make proteins? Can we incorporate them into tRNA attached to anything that binds?
It's pretty exciting stuff, actually, but building a meaningful protein isn't just getting a sequence right, it's figuring out how the thing folds into a useful morphology. We're taking baby steps here, but they're forward.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What could possibly go wrong?
11 posted on
02/27/2019 5:41:57 PM PST by
gundog
( Hail to the Chief, bitches!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So, it seems that we’re 4-bit life forms; and, we may be rendered obsolete by 8-bit life forms. Or not.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
And yet there’s still no “gay gene”...
Bummer.
18 posted on
02/27/2019 5:51:54 PM PST by
OrangeHoof
(Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I don’t know much about DNA but I did score well on the GCAT test.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Something like this was reported a couple of years back, with the addition of two unnatural groups that base-paired reasonably specifically, to give a total of six “letters” to the genetic alphabet. Don’t know if much of anything practical was done with it; it was largely an experimental demonstration of a theoretical concept.
21 posted on
02/27/2019 5:58:06 PM PST by
Stosh
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’ll stick with the garlic, cilantro, anise, and thyme.
22 posted on
02/27/2019 6:01:11 PM PST by
fruser1
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Normally, as a pair of DNA strands twist around each other in a double helix, the chemicals on each strand pair up: A bonds to T, and C bonds with G. So far so good.
For a long time, scientists have tried to add more pairs...
That's what got us into this mess.
26 posted on
02/27/2019 6:21:35 PM PST by
Ezekiel
(The pun is mightier than the s-word.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Why do I hear "Don't Fear the Reaper" in the background?
27 posted on
02/27/2019 6:25:55 PM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
28 posted on
02/27/2019 6:31:15 PM PST by
moovova
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“The study implies that there is nothing particularly magic or special about those four chemicals that evolved on Earth”
Right, OK. So you COPIED an architecture from another design and can now claim the design is not particularly “magic”.
Yet you walk around the room, doing your research ... running on those boring old chemicals.
29 posted on
02/27/2019 6:39:00 PM PST by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Kinda dumb news. Uracil also occurs in nature.
32 posted on
02/27/2019 7:12:13 PM PST by
dangus
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
To paraphrase Taylor Swift, cause we dont know what we dont know...
34 posted on
02/27/2019 7:28:45 PM PST by
Yaelle
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
That’s going to play hell with the movie “GATTACA”.
35 posted on
02/27/2019 7:32:20 PM PST by
hoagy62
(America Supreme!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
By adjusting these holes and prongs, the team has come up with several new pairs of bases, including a pair named S and B, and another called P and Z2.
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So what will they call Gattaca II?
And will anybody be able to pronounce it?
36 posted on
02/27/2019 7:34:30 PM PST by
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