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NANOSCALE PHASE CHANGE MEMORY MATERIALS. "Phase change memory materials store information through their reversible transitions between crystalline and amorphous states." Programmable materials are all about the storage of information in inert molecules and making them do orderly work. https://lnkd.in/ejHv_xs View in LinkedIn

IMMUNE GUIDES. "We argue that infections that are generally considered harmless or unimportant play a role in shaping the normal immune response, at the cost of inducing disease in rare individuals with highly specific alterations in immune system genes." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURE AS INFORMATION. "A number of models have viewed the microtubule lattice as something like a computational matrix in which the states of individual tubules represented fundamental units of information (e.g., like binary 'bits' in a computer)." https://lnkd.in/ea7fXXu View in LinkedIn

LIMITED HARM. "Given that chronic virus infections may be harmful in only a limited number of genetically predisposed persons or may even be symbiotic, the costs versus benefits of eliminating chronic viruses must be carefully considered." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

"CENTRIOLES could act as information carriers throughout generations. The discovery raises the possibility that transmission of biological information could involve more than just genes." https://lnkd.in/eGFHEVJ View in LinkedIn

VIRAL CONTRIBUTION. "The bottom line is that many major diseases that have been associated with inflammation—including cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, allergic diseases, cancer, and autoimmunity—occur in persons that are chronically infected by viruses." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

NEW VIRUSES. "Further viral diseases may be awaiting either the identification of new viruses or the assessment of relationships between individual human genes, the virome, and specific diseases. Thus, the existence of a viral contribution to our metagenome may exact a large price in those of us with specific genetic predispositions to disease." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

SLEEPERS. "These new data suggest that we should consider that many or all humans are genetically “immunocompromised” to a greater or lesser extent for specific infections, including infection by viruses that constitute our virome. Thus, a virus present in all of us may cause disease only in those unfortunate enough to have a specific constellation of genes." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

PROLIFERATION. "ERVs are transcribed in a variety of normal and diseased tissues, and they can proliferate within the genome over evolutionary time either by production of viruses that reinfect the genome or by retrotransposition." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn

PROTEIN EXPRESSION. "Some ERVs are replication competent, but many are replication defective. And yet even such defective ERVs can express proteins. Human ERVs from over 30 lineages constitute perhaps 8%–9% of the human genome." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867409007831 View in LinkedIn