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Fascinating. This just popped in my head: does the human genome contain pointers? Or am I missing a key piece?
by mattbettinson 9y ago
Fascinating. This just popped in my head: does the human genome contain pointers? Or am I missing a key piece?
- kanzure 9y agoMany things in biology could be construed to be pointers if you squint hard enough--- promoters, transcription factors, all sorts of far-reaching regulation-effecting small molecules and proteins and variations of DNA/RNA molecules. Is "guide RNA" a pointer? what about the other gene targeting techniques-- like TALENs? see http://diyhpl.us/wiki/gene-editing/ http://diyhpl.us/wiki/gene-editing/ "Primer for synthetic biology" http://www.openwetware.org/images/3/3d/SB_Primer_100707.pdf http://www.openwetware.org/images/3/3d/SB_Primer_100707.pdf pretty old presentation but here you go, "Synthetic Biology: A primer" http://cellbase.epfl.ch/twiki/pub/IGEM/PaperCollection/iGEM_synth_bio_lecture_2010.pdf http://cellbase.epfl.ch/twiki/pub/IGEM/PaperCollection/iGEM_...
- mattbettinson 9y agoThis is what I was looking for without realizing it. Metastructures signing DNA to regulate. Wow!