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O.K. i think i got the jest of it and that is they were showing in this study that ancient life probably did start out as RNA and not DNA as we've talked about this before on the science forums.
Wow.... self-replicating RNA... You can manipulate the outcome of DNA directly and in turn making simple proteins and making dramatic changes to... the very building blocks of life itself. haha i remembered something from BIO 100. weee
Maybe someone will make a potion that will make me fly.
Yeah, that is interesting. It would be nice if we had something analogous to a antimalware program, getting rid of stuff that doesn't belong. One idea was fixing muscular dystrophy by getting rid of errors:
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The PNA prevented a bad segment of the dystrophin gene from being translated from RNA to protein, thus eliminating a debilitating mutation present in that segment while leaving intact enough of the dystrophin to function.
Who knows what it could potentially do?
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