Reminded me of something I read in an article "The Insanity Virus" a few years back. >If our DNA were an airplane carry-on bag (and essentially it is), it woul

Reminded me of something I read in an article "The Insanity Virus" a few years back. >If our DNA were an airplane carry-on bag (and essentially it is), it would be bursting at the seams. We lug around 100,000 retro­virus sequences inside us; all told, genetic parasites related to viruses account for more than 40 percent of all human DNA. Our body works hard to silence its viral stowaways by tying up those stretches of DNA in tight stacks of proteins, but sometimes they slip out. HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938618 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938618