Month: September 2022

Microplastics should be banned in cosmetics to save oceans, MPs say http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/24/microplastics-ban-in-cosmetics-save-oceans-mps-say-microbeads?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

LOW ERROR RATE WITH DNA. "No technical production system, regardless how perfect, even approaches the low error rate achieved in the DNA reproduction process in living organisms." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

HIGHER LEVEL CONTROL. "But this text processing on protein-coding DNA is overruled by the genome processing abilities of repetitive DNA of introns coding not for proteins but a lot of RNAs among them active micro-RNAs. Typically, any mistakes in protein-coding and non-protein coding text processing have grave if not lethal consequences for the organism." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

"HYPOTHESIS: micromessengers are agents of conflict between different interacting parties. The potential for miRNAs to function as micromessengers to effect cell-to-cell communication at a distance represents considerable potential for the expression of conflicts of interest." https://lnkd.in/eRcyMDJ View in LinkedIn

REPLICATION ERRORS. "If information is really only physics and chemistry, then replication can only form identical copies. If changes occur that vary the master copy, the correct designation is error. Therefore, mutation as error replication is the appropriate term, because it is a statistical event, randomly derived." https://lnkd.in/bpZMBAH View in LinkedIn

ADVANTAGEOUS ERRORS. "In an abundance of replication errors, in very few cases it may occur that one or a few are beneficial to prior master types. They have selective advantages, and the accumulation of such rare beneficial mutations is the driving force for variation, the core force that is subject to biological selection." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

DNA IS DYNAMIC. "Some decades ago, it became obvious that DNA is not an unchangeable information carrier, but is subject to dynamic interactional change that has essential relevance for evolutionary novelty. It has been found, that in some events, a duplication of genes happened." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

NOVELTY BY GENOME EDITING. "After a duplication, when a copy is usually released from selective pressure, there might be rapid changes that either lead to gene inactivation or, in rarer cases, exaptation into a new or variant function. However, this concept does not explain generative competences for evolutionary novelty in terms of genome editing." There is no evolution without infection. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

GENETIC HYBRIDS. "Eukaryotic cells are the result of the merging of several different ancestral genomes. Endosymbiotic concepts demonstrate convincingly that most of the DNA found in the cytoplasm of protoctists, animals, fungi, and plants come from genes of bacteria that became organelles, not from mutations." https://lnkd.in/bpZMBAH View in LinkedIn

TWO BRANCHES. "Eukaryotic genes that participate in information processing (translation, transcription, etc.) show a close relationship to eubacteria. On the other side, genetic factors that control metabolic processes more closely resemble the metabolic processes of archaea." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn