Month: September 2022

“THE FINAL FRONTIER of the digital technology is integrating into your own brain. DARPA wants to go there. Scientists want to go there. Entrepreneurs want to go there. And increasingly, it looks like it’s possible.” https://lnkd.in/dsdxT_g View in LinkedIn

AUGMENTED ON STEROIDS. “Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy – sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others.” https://lnkd.in/eFd9Fdg View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of alternative splicing in genetics. This mechanism amplifies the number of proteins that a limited number of genes can make, thus playing a key role in evolution, allowing proteins with novel functions to expand the phenotype of organisms. Once again, the ingenuity of this chance event questions intention in nature. View in LinkedIn

GIANT AMPLIFIER. "The overall function of alternative splicing is to increase the diversity of mRNAs expressed from the genome. Alternative splicing changes proteins encoded by mRNAs, which has profound functional effects." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111912009791 View in LinkedIn

“Alternative splicing of mRNA precursors enables one gene to produce multiple protein isoforms with differing functions. Under normal conditions, this mechanism is tightly regulated in order for the human genome to generate proteomic diversity sufficient for the functional requirements of complex tissues." http://cancerdiscovery.aacrjournals.org/content/3/11/1228.short View in LinkedIn