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It's fundamentally different than a computer and arguably more complete. The talk of "crawling along the genome" is kinda fundamentally wrong though and is a b
by koeng 1y ago
It's fundamentally different than a computer and arguably more complete.
The talk of "crawling along the genome" is kinda fundamentally wrong though and is a bit irking - CRISPR kinda just bumps around until it hits a PAM site, in which case it starts checking against sgRNA. Much more random than they make it seem
- anthk 1y agoThis is crazier: https://www.sciencealert.com/are-we-all-quantum-computers-with-quantum-brains https://www.sciencealert.com/are-we-all-quantum-computers-wi... About CRISP, it's like the ultimate Perl+Regex for the body.
- drjasonharrison 1y ago"Bumps around until it hits" sounds like a set of magnets arranged to only mate up in a specific direction. Except we have four nucleotides rather than only two magnetic poles.