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IMMUNITY TO RETROVIRAL INFECTIONS. "As intron-rich linear chromosomes are the preferred habitat for persistent retroviral infections, and because of their important role in host-genetic content (re) arrangements, the invention of bacterial circular genomes must have had an effective immune function against retroviral infections. The result was the evolution of organisms that successfully escaped the high selective pressures of the early RNA world." https://lnkd.in/ekWBG2q 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

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

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

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

CODING AND NON-CODING. "In the last decade even the significance and indispensable structural function of non-coding RNA becomes more and more interesting. In every case, enzyme proteins competent in text processing carry out these highly differentiated tasks on protein-coding DNA regions with great precision." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

SYMBIOGENESIS. "Recombination makes a foreign data set into one’s own, the “non-self” to a “self”, an object of external perception to a subject of internal proprioception." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

REVOLUTIONARY PHENOMENA. "If symbiogenesis, via symbiosis, creates a new species and therefore extinguishes the formerly independent individuals, then this involves generative DNA text processing in which genetically different gene pools are combined into one DNA text. This is one of the most revolutionary phenomena in biology." https://lnkd.in/eDswHmC View in LinkedIn

RADICAL CHANGES. "Today we know that it was a strong infection event with persistent viral settlers that transferred complete genetic blocks into single, or a very few infection events to host organisms that changed the phenotypic organism in a radical way without an infinite number of small steps." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nyas.12570/abstract View in LinkedIn

LARGE ENZYME BOOST. "Antioxidant metabolites in eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) needles increased two- to fourfold from the summer to the winter season. Antioxidant enzymes in needle tissue increased between 2 and 122 fold during this same period." https://lnkd.in/eqkRiKP View in LinkedIn