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Cool. It's fun to see how Turing patterns are everywhere in biology. However, as Turing himself said (allegedly): 'Well the stripes are easy, but what about the
by AllegedAlec 7y ago
Cool. It's fun to see how Turing patterns are everywhere in biology. However, as Turing himself said (allegedly): 'Well the stripes are easy, but what about the horse part?'
- jbay808 7y agoYou can watch acapellascience answer this question to the tune of 'Despacito'! https://youtu.be/ydqReeTV_vk https://youtu.be/ydqReeTV_vk
- AllegedAlec 7y agoThat explains what the central dogma is, but not how specific patterns of gene expression lead to a horse. That's something that's still quite a mystery. Hell, even after a lot of work, we don't still entirely know how even something as simple as Drosophila does its segmentation.
- anigbrowl 7y agoHaving developed an amateur interest in cell biology over the last few years, the single most interesting thing I've learned is that Interglobulin-M cells cells just happen to have same basic morphology as the kind of animals that they come from.
- ColanR 7y agoI have no idea what that means, but I'm curious to know. Can you point to anything I could read?
- anigbrowl 7y agoI'm so sorry, I should have written immunoglobulin-M and didn't notice my mistake. I don't feel qualified to recommend a text, I just follow references from here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_M
- ColanR 7y agoThanks. :) That's what I found when I searched, but the spelling difference threw me off.