Posts: 4196
Threads: 60
Joined: September 8, 2011
Reputation:
30
New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 15, 2015 at 11:07 pm
It would seem that god did not choose the best DNA structure.
Quote:The new nucleotides even outperform their natural counterparts. When challenged to evolve a segment that selectively binds to cancer cells, DNA sequences using P and Z did better than those without.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
Posts: 20476
Threads: 447
Joined: June 16, 2014
Reputation:
111
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 15, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Please remember, God only understands analogue... All this modern digital science bullshit didn't exist billions of years ago... Give the old bloke a chance....
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
Posts: 27254
Threads: 519
Joined: June 16, 2015
Reputation:
90
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 16, 2015 at 5:27 pm
When this gets out the anti genetic modification sect will have a shit fit. god damn it, you'll make a virus that will kill us all!
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
Posts: 4196
Threads: 60
Joined: September 8, 2011
Reputation:
30
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 16, 2015 at 6:04 pm
Oh yeah, I have been waiting on that. Nothing can go wrong. If you don not believe me, just go ask the 'killer bees'.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
Posts: 27254
Threads: 519
Joined: June 16, 2015
Reputation:
90
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 16, 2015 at 6:11 pm
(July 16, 2015 at 6:04 pm)IATIA Wrote: Oh yeah, I have been waiting on that. Nothing can go wrong. If you don not believe me, just go ask the 'killer bees'.
Have they given the chemical structure of the P and Z nucleotides?
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
Posts: 4196
Threads: 60
Joined: September 8, 2011
Reputation:
30
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 16, 2015 at 6:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2015 at 6:48 pm by IATIA.)
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
Posts: 27254
Threads: 519
Joined: June 16, 2015
Reputation:
90
RE: New Letters Added to the Genetic Alphabet
July 16, 2015 at 7:44 pm
Extremely interesting. Back in undergrad (1978) we ran the Miller/Urey experiment and did manage to make very short chain amino acids.
http://people.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_...iller.html
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
