Year: 2022

VERY LARGE SCALE, and well-funded international epigenetic initiatives in the "post-genomic era" (can that possibly be true?), are requiring giant open-source public databases, cloud computing, and data warehousing solutions. This is the emergence of the second Human Genome Project, which already returned a giant ROI, and initiated a new era of genomic and personalized medicine. Bioinformatics and deep data mining is at the heart of these new Knowledge Economy ventures, and will undoubtedly yield as exciting data and new medical applications as the first venture. View in LinkedIn

THE NEW KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY is something that many regions worldwide are hoping will replace the rustbelt sweat-based economies of the past. Catalonia has been investing in this opportunity for over 13 years, and creating a science and technology research excellence that has enough weight and momentum to drive this new economy. Other stalling economies are placing similar bets on technology. Among those flowering successes are genomics and epigenetics which have long term sustainable economic consequences. View in LinkedIn

PRIONS ARE NOT PATHOGENIC IN YEAST AND FUNGI. We continue to discover new ways that learning is passed down. Prions are like viruses, and typically hijack host cell metabolism for their own reproductive purposes, and normally prions cause disease. "Yeast and fungi regularly use protein-based inheritance systems (prions) to pass on functionally important traits."" " http://lnkd.in/_ZNyaw View in LinkedIn

ACIENT JUMPING GENES make up about 50% of the human genome and can change locations confoundingly. In other species they can be exchanged between individuals for rapid adaptation. " " http://lnkd.in/73FMN3 View in LinkedIn

JUMPING GENES continue to confound scientists about their nature. " " http://lnkd.in/FMfFEF View in LinkedIn

GENES FLOAT BETWEEN SPECIES? You thought that you had a handle on inheritance of traits and learning? Get this. In higher animals (not just yeasts and fungi), in this case cows, they inherited up to a quarter their genes from reptiles (snakes)!!" " http://lnkd.in/zgshwE View in LinkedIn

THE TOP SEVEN most extraordinary things about our world and universe? " "" "1. The unimaginably giant and powerful (black holes) universe;" "2. Sustainable closed ecosystems (life in a bottle);" "3. Evolving lifeforms that reinvent themselves by diverse genetics;" "4. Mentation and multiplexed minds -- anticipation, learning, and problem solving (swarm intelligence);" "5. Photosynthesis (the clean Green Machine);" "6 The Senses, in all their diversity;" "7. Communication of all types. " "" "What is your list? View in LinkedIn

HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER accounts for the immensely varied metabolism, ecological niches of bacteria. They acquire a big part of their genetic diversity from genes from DISTANTLY RELATED SPECIES. Large amounts of genes thus acquired are added and deleted, giving bacteria an enormous genetic repertoire, and contribute to rapidly innovative traits like drug resistance. View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL GENES IN HUMAN CANCERS (2013): due to the 10:1 excess of (bacterial: human cells) living in close proximity, lateral" "gene transfer occurs: "We detected the integration of bacterial DNA in the human genome (in tumors)... extensive amounts of (bacterial) DNA ... were fused to human mitochondrial DNA in acute myeloid leukemia samples."" "" "doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003107 View in LinkedIn

BACTERIAL GENES in human cancer are not surprising because:" "" (a) Eucaryotes have widespread lateral gene transfer from bacteria, (b) bacteria in vitro can transform the mammalian genome, and (c) viruses integrate into the human genome and cause disease."" "" "doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003107 View in LinkedIn