DNA IS A DOUBLE CODE

'Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code'.

'Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.'

Which means that DNA is both data-storage and intelligent processor, which is what this blog has been saying for many years.

MEMORIES PASS BETWEEN GENERATIONS

Yet more proof of what this blog has been saying for years--that DNA processing goes on through the generations. 'Memories' pass between generations (BBC, citing a Nature Neuroscience study).

DNA-PROCESSING AT WORK IN EXAPTATIONS

Exaptations not adaptations: Sorry Darwin, you got it wrong...

Yet more evidence of the experimental processing power over the generations.

'Exactly how new traits emerge is a question that has long puzzled evolutionary biologists. While some adaptations develop to address a specific need, others (called "exaptations") develop as a by-product of another feature with minor or no function, and may acquire more or greater uses later. Feathers, for example, did not originate for flight but may have helped insulate or waterproof dinosaurs before helping birds fly.

'How common such pre-adaptive traits are in relation to adaptive traits is unclear. Santa Fe Institute External Professor Andreas Wagner and colleague Aditya Barve, both evolutionary biologists at the University of Zurich, decided to get a systematic handle on how traits originate by studying all the chemical reactions taking place in an organism's metabolism.'

Full story on ScienceDaily.

WOW! JUNK DNA IS NOT JUNK!

As this blog has been saying for years, the so-called 'junk' DNA is not junk. To use computer terms, DNA is CPU, RAM, disk drive, operating system, a vast range of applications and AI, all in one amazing package. Intelligent hardware and software. What was dismissed as junk, as this ScienceDaily story again underlines, never was junk. The only junk was in the dismissive hubris of the scientists who mocked it.

EPIGENETICS DOES CROSS THE GENERATIONS

This headline in ScienceDaily today is not in the least surprising: Life Experiences Put Their Stamp On the Next Generation: New Insights from Epigenetics.

This blogger has been saying the same thing for many years.

Full story on ScienceDaily.

EPIGENETIC CHANGES CAN BE INHERITED

Scientists discover how epigenetic changes can be passed on from one generation to the next. (full story in ScienceDaily)