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is there any evidence or possibility that this is actually done in biology already? If DNA is writable, then cells have a Von Neumann architecture!
by jes5199 14y ago
is there any evidence or possibility that this is actually done in biology already? If DNA is writable, then cells have a Von Neumann architecture!
- christianbryant 14y agoGoogling keywords like non-coding RNA, reverse transcriptase, and epigenetics suggests that even further back than this article, this was suspected to be the case.
- mbreese 14y agoThis is somewhat like the way antibodies are formed. There are genetic changes (recombination) at the DNA level in the antibody hyper-variable regions. This is how we produce antibodies for everything based on a single gene (somewhat). However, antibody VDJ recombination is more akin to write-only memory. Once it is produced, it doesn't change.