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National Trust calls for complete reform of British farm subsidies http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/04/national-trust-calls-for-complete-reform-of-british-farm-subsidies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

KEY FINDING. "One of the most interesting discoveries in the last decades was certainly the fact that nucleic acid sequences are not only information bearing molecules that serve as a read-only storage medium, but they can be actively modified by several coplayers." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

How do you navigate a problem like Jakarta's gridlock? Ban cars. http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/03/asia/go-jek/index.html View in LinkedIn

KEY FINDING. "One of the most interesting discoveries in the last decades was certainly the fact that nucleic acid sequences are not only information bearing molecules that serve as a read-only storage medium, but they can be actively modified by several coplayers." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

ACTIVE AND UBIQUITOUS. "A great variety of such mobile genetic elements have been identified during the last 40 years as obligate inhabitants of all genomes, either prokaryotic or eukaryotic. They infect, insert, and delete; some cut and paste, others copy and paste, and both spread within the genome." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

IN SPACE AND TIME. "Noncoding RNAs can undergo nuclear-cytoplasmic, nuclear-mitochondrial, and axodendritic trafficking via ribonucleprotein complexes that promote the spatiotemporal distribution and function of various combinations of ncRNAs, mRNAs, and RNA binding proteins." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

ACTIVE AND UBIQUITOUS. "A great variety of such mobile genetic elements have been identified during the last 40 years as obligate inhabitants of all genomes, either prokaryotic or eukaryotic. They infect, insert, and delete; some cut and paste, others copy and paste, and both spread within the genome." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

"RNA EDITING especially can transmit environmental information to the epigenome and therefore enable neuronal plasticity with learning and memory." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

DNA AS ECOLOGICAL NICHE. "DNA is not solely a genetic storage medium that serves as an evolutionary protocol but is also a species-specific ecological niche." https://lnkd.in/eUYvi8e View in LinkedIn

ENERGETICS. "There seems to be a minimum energy cost of 1.5 mol ATP per mol CaCO3 deposited. This involves a photon cost of 1.71 photons per CaCO3 with cyclic electron flow generating ATP, i.e. 11% of the cost of photosynthetic growth...the calcification cost is 19% that of photosynthetic growth." https://lnkd.in/e2i9eMi View in LinkedIn