It is phrased very poorly, and admittedly does sound pretty crazy, but it made sense to me as someone who works in the field. Gene regulation is a really compli

It is phrased very poorly, and admittedly does sound pretty crazy, but it made sense to me as someone who works in the field. Gene regulation is a really complicated process, and its becoming increasingly clear that 3D interactions and chromatin remolding/confirmation are very important. Some regulatory elements act very specifically on genes that are over 1 million base pairs away. How are they targeted? Good question. Although I suppose the probability that DARPA was thinking about gene regulation when they wrote this is slim to none :/