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Original paper at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp7112297 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp7112297

• sfwc 17y ago
  The dailygalaxy article makes it sound like this phenomenon is completely baffling to scientists - my first thought as I read it was "vitalism", they seemed to be saying that the sequence recognition just happens by magic. In fact, though, the original paper discusses at least two possible mechanisms.
  • yters 17y ago
    Perhaps there's still something to vitalism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Driesch#Experiments_in_embryology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Driesch#Experiments_in_emb... Experiment showing that irregardless of sea-urchin embryo part grown, it still developed into a full sea-urchin. Hans Driersch thought this evidence of some kind of vitalism in nature.
    • Schtarflucz 17y ago
      He basically discovered multipotent stem cells. No magic in sight. Nothing related to long standing superstitons either.