koeng

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   by koeng 7y ago

   I work with some groups trying to build synthetic cells, and honestly there isn’t even a good definition for what a “cell” is or what “life” is in the scientific communities. The best proxy I can come up with, which is universally true on e
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   by koeng 7y ago

   As someone in the biological field, I personally don’t trust ancestry DNA tests, but I’d be much more likely to trust full-genome sequencing rather than SNP sequencing. Plus, you can have a lot of fun with bioinformatics if you get full gen
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   by koeng 8y ago

   There are lots of reasons. For one, expanding the genetic code would allow new and interesting structures in RNAs, would allow massive expansion of amino acid coding sets, different evolution paths based on codon usage, etc. Generally in sy