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A gene that keeps track of how often it’s made into a protein
- subcosmos 9y agoThis is profoundly cool. I think the biotech applications of this might be really huge.
- userbinator 9y agoI can't help but think this is going to lead into some sort of "biological DRM" that companies like Monsanto are almost certainly going to love. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases#As_defendant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases#As_defend...
- nonbel 9y agoMisleading/incorrect title: The use of "gene" made me expect a claim about some kind of DNA modification after each transcription. This is about a claim that ribosomes may "pile up" on mRNA after each translation. EDIT: This single sentence is a much better summary than the article: "We propose [a] mechanism is used to count and limit the number of protein molecules that can be synthesized from a single mRNA template. http://www.nature.com/articles/nature25174 http://www.nature.com/articles/nature25174 So basically they propose there is a way to put an upper bound on number of proteins that result from each individual mRNA.