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03-12-2021, 09:25 PM
With the newest of vaccines now being of the mRNA type, I been doing some research/reading on what is this mRNA all about.
- Messenger RNA vaccines - also called mRNA vaccines -
I found the article from Journalist Ingrid Spilde, to be quite fascinating.
https://sciencenorway.no/cells-dna-rna/rna-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-layer-in-the-genetic-code-of-life/1633809
The article explains what DNA and RNA are and how they work.
There are new frontiers being discovered, and weather we can agree that may be a good thing or possibly not is a different story for another time and place :eek:
Shown below is an exert from the article.
C/P
Ingrid Spilde journalist
Nancy Bazilchuk English version
February 2020
RNA: Scientists have discovered a new layer in the genetic code of life
Our cells contain a previously unknown layer of information. This layer facilitates a whole new level of regulation that might make us more adaptable. Or sick, when the system fails.
Welcome to the new world of epitranscriptomics.
And we’ve only just gotten used to epigenetics!
Just a few years ago, scientists began to realize that our genes, neatly written with chemical letters in our DNA, are actually not carved in stone.
Although genes themselves don’t change, they can be regulated.
They are turned on and off as we grow and develop. These changes are influenced by our surroundings, so we actually change over the course of our lives. And some of these changes in regulation are passed on to our children.
Figuratively speaking, our DNA can be described as the recipe book for who and how we are, while epigenetic regulation can be seen as notes that have been penciled into the margin.
Epigenetics thus describes a fascinating layer of information and regulation of our genes that enables us to adapt to new environments much faster than via normal evolution.
But lately, scientists have seen evidence of something more.
Another layer.
And this time it's not about DNA, but about RNA, says Professor Arne Klungland at the University of Oslo.
If our DNA is a recipe book, you might say that RNA is the cook that brings all the instructions in the book to life. Including all the notes in the margins.
Initially, researchers thought that RNA worked like a dutiful but slightly boring cook, one that follows the recipe exactly.
But lately, scientists have begun to rethink this idea.
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- Messenger RNA vaccines - also called mRNA vaccines -
I found the article from Journalist Ingrid Spilde, to be quite fascinating.
https://sciencenorway.no/cells-dna-rna/rna-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-layer-in-the-genetic-code-of-life/1633809
The article explains what DNA and RNA are and how they work.
There are new frontiers being discovered, and weather we can agree that may be a good thing or possibly not is a different story for another time and place :eek:
Shown below is an exert from the article.
C/P
Ingrid Spilde journalist
Nancy Bazilchuk English version
February 2020
RNA: Scientists have discovered a new layer in the genetic code of life
Our cells contain a previously unknown layer of information. This layer facilitates a whole new level of regulation that might make us more adaptable. Or sick, when the system fails.
Welcome to the new world of epitranscriptomics.
And we’ve only just gotten used to epigenetics!
Just a few years ago, scientists began to realize that our genes, neatly written with chemical letters in our DNA, are actually not carved in stone.
Although genes themselves don’t change, they can be regulated.
They are turned on and off as we grow and develop. These changes are influenced by our surroundings, so we actually change over the course of our lives. And some of these changes in regulation are passed on to our children.
Figuratively speaking, our DNA can be described as the recipe book for who and how we are, while epigenetic regulation can be seen as notes that have been penciled into the margin.
Epigenetics thus describes a fascinating layer of information and regulation of our genes that enables us to adapt to new environments much faster than via normal evolution.
But lately, scientists have seen evidence of something more.
Another layer.
And this time it's not about DNA, but about RNA, says Professor Arne Klungland at the University of Oslo.
If our DNA is a recipe book, you might say that RNA is the cook that brings all the instructions in the book to life. Including all the notes in the margins.
Initially, researchers thought that RNA worked like a dutiful but slightly boring cook, one that follows the recipe exactly.
But lately, scientists have begun to rethink this idea.
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