tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10731661192052054982024-03-06T05:05:26.603+13:00BIOMOLECULAR LOGICThoughts on the fundamental logic--i.e., the molecular logic--of life, plus other life items (the first are copied from my <a href="http://www.estarfuturecorp.com/blog/estarblog.html">EStar blog,</a> from 2006 onwards). The foundation of life is the logic of the atom; built on that is the logic of the molecule; built on that is the logic of the cell; built on that is the logic of the organ; built on that is the logic of the organism.Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-52444386302630081302015-12-20T12:48:00.000+13:002015-12-20T12:48:02.109+13:00INTELLIGENT EVOLUTION FOUND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'Evolution may be more intelligent than we thought, according to researchers. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151218085616.htm" target="_blank">In a new article, </a>the authors make the case that evolution is able to learn from previous experience, which could provide a better explanation of how evolution by natural selection produces such apparently intelligent designs.'<br />
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Which is what this blog has been saying for years. There is more intelligence and processing-power in a strand of DNA than in all the dumb-as-a-brick nonsense spouted by those who worship Darwin's random-chance drivel.</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-30970771507261185832014-09-20T09:13:00.000+12:002014-09-20T09:13:00.629+12:00INHERITED DNA PROGRAMMING - MORE EVIDENCE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This blog has many times over the years talked about changes to DNA being passed on down through the generations--long before the evidence emerged. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140918141448.htm" target="_blank">Now yet more proof of that has been shown.</a></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-13948299134845544742014-08-14T09:38:00.001+12:002014-08-14T09:38:13.163+12:00PROTEIN LOGIC - AEONS TO SECONDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140813131152.htm" target="_blank">This article gets close to saying what this blog has been saying for years</a>. Bio-molecular logic and processing operates over the aeons to work to the optimum result.</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-275153069680855432014-07-08T09:56:00.002+12:002014-07-08T09:56:29.718+12:00VIRUSES FOOL THE BODY WITH FAKE PROTEINS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Some viruses can hide in our bodies for decades and make 'fake' human proteins that trick our immune cells into believing nothing is wrong. <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140707092707.htm" target="_blank">Now researchers have determined the basic structure of one of the two known families of these deceptive proteins.</a></span></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-85821628031114641952014-07-01T10:24:00.000+12:002014-07-01T10:24:09.399+12:00ADDING INTELLIGENCE TO LIFE'S OS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
More and more intelligence is added to life's operating system, bit by bit.<br />
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'<span style="background-color: #f2f3f4; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">The <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630164012.htm" target="_blank">researchers found distinct fingerprints in the ribosomes</a> where new structures were added to the ribosomal surface without altering the pre-existing ribosomal core from the last universal common ancestor.</span>'</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-55057742307860356882014-06-03T09:30:00.001+12:002014-06-03T09:30:14.126+12:00SMART SPLICESOMES MAKING PROTEINS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'<span style="background-color: white; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">Like exploring the inner workings of a clock, researchers are digging into the inner workings of the tiny cellular machines called </span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140602150707.htm" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;" target="_blank">spliceosomes,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;"> which help make all of the proteins our bodies need to function. They have now captured images of this machine, revealing details never seen before.'</span></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-68642124504501939282014-05-26T10:38:00.003+12:002014-05-26T10:38:17.437+12:00DNA CLEVERER THAN DOGMA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'<span style="background-color: white; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">It has long been assumed that there is only one "canonical" genetic code, so each word means the same thing to every organism. Now, this paradigm has been challenged by the discovery of large numbers of exceptions from the canonical genetic code', <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522141422.htm" target="_blank">as ScienceDaily reports.</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #070809; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;">The DNA is a lot smarter than the blind dogma about it.</span></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-77257280204725795652014-03-03T11:24:00.004+13:002014-03-03T11:24:44.618+13:00NICOTINE-INDUCED ADHD INHERITED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140227134708.htm" target="_blank">Those who suffer from ADHD may have inherited it from a grandmother who smoked.</a></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-23027610913658266472013-12-17T20:29:00.001+13:002013-12-17T20:29:33.767+13:00DNA IS A DOUBLE CODE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/12/12/scientists-discover-double-meaning-in-genetic-code/" target="_blank">'Scientists discover double meaning in genetic code'.</a><br />
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'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.'<br />
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Which means that DNA is both data-storage and intelligent processor, which is what this blog has been saying for many years.</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-46025418513233829342013-12-06T13:24:00.002+13:002013-12-06T13:24:12.384+13:00MEMORIES PASS BETWEEN GENERATIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Yet more proof of what this blog has been saying for years--that DNA processing goes on through the generations. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510" target="_blank">'Memories' pass between generations (BBC, citing a <i>Nature Neuroscience</i> study).</a></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-79544354703382114592013-07-16T15:14:00.003+12:002013-07-16T15:14:37.299+12:00DNA-PROCESSING AT WORK IN EXAPTATIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Exaptations not adaptations: Sorry Darwin, you got it wrong...</b><br />
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Yet more evidence of the experimental processing power over the generations.<br />
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'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.<br />
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'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.'<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130715134424.htm" target="_blank">Full story on ScienceDaily.</a></div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-1059372038227929852013-04-17T15:21:00.002+12:002013-04-17T15:21:26.259+12:00WOW! JUNK DNA IS NOT JUNK!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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 <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130415172010.htm" target="_blank">ScienceDaily story</a> again underlines, never was junk. The only junk was in the dismissive hubris of the scientists who mocked it.</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-52433695559717547952013-02-15T12:53:00.006+13:002013-02-15T12:53:59.592+13:00EPIGENETICS DOES CROSS THE GENERATIONS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This headline in ScienceDaily today is not in the least surprising: <b>Life Experiences Put Their Stamp On the Next Generation: New Insights from Epigenetics.</b><br />
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This blogger has been saying the same thing for many years.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130214075539.htm" target="_blank">Full story on ScienceDaily.</a><br />
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Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-48265639840298339222013-01-25T15:34:00.003+13:002013-01-25T15:34:50.081+13:00EPIGENETIC CHANGES CAN BE INHERITED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130124150808.htm" target="_blank">Scientists discover how epigenetic changes can be passed on from one generation to the next.</a> (full story in ScienceDaily)</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-2828197696652622782012-12-30T17:29:00.002+13:002012-12-30T17:29:15.147+13:00CLEVER CREATIVE SPLICING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>Evolution: It’s all in how you splice it... </b>MIT biologists find that alternative splicing of RNA rewires signalling in different tissues and may often contribute to species differences. <a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/rna-splicing-species-difference-1220.html" target="_blank">Full story here.</a><br />
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Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-44419594763398980822012-10-26T18:29:00.000+13:002012-10-26T18:32:04.739+13:00EVOLUTION INTELLIGENT NOT RANDOM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Far from Random, Evolution Follows a Predictable Genetic Pattern</b><br />
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That headline in <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121025130922.htm" target="_blank">ScienceDaily</a> says it all, and gives very nice empirical evidence to back up what this blog has been saying for years--i.e., that 'evolution' is driven by intelligent processing down through the generations.<br />
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It is not random changes. Nor is it random changes selected by the chances of reproduction and circumstance. Or any such nonsense.<br />
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So, once again: DNA is an intelligent processing system that works within organisms and across time to maintain and enhance life. That is sense.<br />
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Evolution is not blind. It knows what it is doing. Darwin was wrong.</div>
Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-51681565664318664612012-09-06T12:56:00.001+12:002012-09-06T12:56:25.518+12:00HOW THE INTELLIGENT GENOME WORKS <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Human Genome Project produced an almost complete order of the 3 billion pairs of chemical letters in the DNA that embodies the human genetic code -- but little about the way that blueprint works. Now, after years of concerted effort by more than 440 researchers in 32 labs around the world, in a project called ENCODE, a more dynamic picture gives the first holistic view of how the human genome does its job.<br />
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'During the early debates about the Human Genome Project, researchers had predicted that only a few percent of the human genome sequence encoded proteins, the workhorses of the cell, and that the rest was junk. We now know that this conclusion was wrong,' said Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a part of the National Institutes of Health. 'ENCODE has revealed that most of the human genome is involved in the complex molecular choreography required for converting genetic information into living cells and organisms.'<br />
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'We've come a long way,' said Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute, in the United Kingdom, and lead analysis-coordinator for ENCODE. 'By carefully piecing together a simply staggering variety of data, we've shown that the human genome is simply alive with switches, turning our genes on and off and controlling when and where proteins are produced.'<br />
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Which is precisely what this blog has been saying for years.<br />
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120905140913.htm" target="_blank">Full story on ScienceDaily. </a><br />
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Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-64596472133152745942012-08-23T17:59:00.000+12:002012-08-23T17:59:01.814+12:00SMARTER MOLECULES IN HUMAN BRAINS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A UCLA study reported in <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120822124708.htm"> ScienceDaily </a> has overturned the traditional view of the evolution of the human brain.<br />
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'Scientists usually describe evolution in terms of the human brain growing bigger and adding new regions,' explained the principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Geschwind, the Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and a professor of neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. 'Our research suggests that it's not only size, but the rising complexity within brain centers, that led humans to evolve into their own species.'<br />
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Using post-mortem brain tissue, Geschwind and his colleagues applied next-generation sequencing and other modern methods to study gene activity in humans, chimpanzees and rhesus macaques, a common ancestor for both chimpanzee and humans that allowed the researchers to see where changes emerged between humans and chimpanzees. They zeroed in on three brain regions -- the frontal cortex, hippocampus and striatum.<br />
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By tracking gene expression, the process by which genes manufacture the amino acids that make up cellular proteins, the scientists were able to search the genomes for regions where the DNA diverged between the species. What they saw surprised them.<br />
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'When we looked at gene expression in the frontal lobe, we saw a striking increase in molecular complexity in the human brain,' said Geschwind, who is also a professor of psychiatry at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA.<br />
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'Although all three species share a frontal cortex, our analysis shows that how the human brain regulates molecules and switches genes on and off unfolds in a richer, more elaborate fashion,' explained first author Genevieve Konopka, a former postdoctoral researcher in Geschwind's lab who is now the Jon Heighten Scholar in Autism Research at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre.<br />
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Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-13977292023197582662011-12-21T15:52:00.001+13:002011-12-21T15:52:02.301+13:00HUMAN SKULLS REVEAL BIODEVELOPMENT<a href="http://neurosciencenews.com/human-skull-evolution-genetics-austrian-brains/">Neuroscience News</a> gives yet more evidence against the foolish Darwinian notion that random changes all added up in the end to new organisms or new features of existing ones. The study of human skulls cited shows that changes occurred in a co-ordinated fashion,and therefore must have been the result of intelligent processing. If they had occurred randomly, piecemeal, we would not have the brains needed to do any studies of anything...Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-87652633591935900072011-12-07T11:53:00.001+13:002011-12-07T11:58:30.200+13:00NON-GENETIC INHERITANCE PROVED!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205102713.htm">ScienceDaily</a> reports that Columbia University Medical Centre (CUMC) researchers have found the first direct evidence <i>that an acquired trait can be inherited without any DNA involvement.</i> The findings suggest that Lamarck, whose theory of evolution was supposed to have been eclipsed by Darwin's, may not have been entirely wrong.<br />
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'In our study, roundworms that developed resistance to a virus were able to pass along that immunity to their progeny for many consecutive generations,' reported lead author Oded Rechavi, PhD, associate research scientist in biochemistry and molecular biophysics at CUMC. 'The immunity was transferred in the form of small viral-silencing agents called viRNAs, working independently of the organism's genome.'<br />
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And were passed on for at least a hundred generations.<br />
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It is nice to have yet more evidence for what this blog has asserted all along.
How long will it take for the Darwin-worshippers, the random-mutations priesthood, to admit the truth--that Darwin was wrong?</div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-90183603118887016112011-11-18T13:55:00.001+13:002011-11-18T13:55:26.588+13:00CELL-SIGNALLING IS TWO-WAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/cell-signaling-received-1117.html">MIT News</a> reports that the chemical signalling of cells is two-way. The mechanism senses whether the signals have been received and the 'volume' is adjusted as necessary.<br />
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Cells receive external signals through sensing molecules--or receptors--embedded in the cell membrane. They then start a cascade of signalling molecules that carry the signals to the nucleus or other internal structures in the cell. The new research shows that the speed or other characteristics of this signalling process can change when the signals are being received. </div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-57396625268419088582011-11-15T19:59:00.001+13:002011-11-17T21:07:42.227+13:00NATURE AND NUTURE SHAPE THE BRAIN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111114112013.htm">ScienceDaily</a> reports new research demonstrating the impact that life experiences can have on genes and behavior. The studies examine how such environmental information can be transmitted from one generation to the next--a phenomenon known as epigenetics. The new knowledge could ultimately improve understanding of brain plasticity, the cognitive benefits of motherhood, and how a parent's exposure to drugs, alcohol, and stress can alter brain development and behavior in their offspring. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2011, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience and the world's largest source of news about the science and health of the brain.</div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-57320274710981161132011-11-02T17:06:00.002+13:002011-11-02T17:06:59.734+13:00GLOBAL BACTERIAL SOCIAL-NETWORKING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock appear to exchange genetic material related to human disease and antibiotic resistance freely and rapidly through a mechanism called horizontal gene-transfer (HGT), reports <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111101125958.htm">ScienceDaily.</a></div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-85509352918176000522011-10-26T14:20:00.001+13:002011-10-28T17:02:30.033+13:00JUNK DNA IS NOT JUNK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As this blog has said more than once, what was dismissed by ignorant scientists as 'junk' DNA turns out to be far from that, as <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111025122615.htm">ScienceDaily</a> reports.<br />
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It makes all the difference between man and apes.<br />
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But it should be no surprise to anyone that a far more sophisticated and intelligent creature should have vastly more processing-power in its DNA. It had to. It could not have been made with less.<br />
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It is simple logic. For the outcome to be more sophisticated and intelligent the fundamentals must be. If the DNA is as dumb as a brick it is impossible to get a highly intelligent creature.</div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073166119205205498.post-25091631845600403102011-10-17T13:35:00.003+13:002011-10-17T13:36:02.422+13:00CELLULAR PROCESSING-POWER MEASURED<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012161306.htm">ScienceDaily</a> reports the start of putting some hard data on the decision-making power of cells, individually and together.<br />
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At last!<br />
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But it overlooks the self-evident fact that a cell makes decisions about many things, not just one. The sum of all those possiblities, amplified exponentially by many cells, and by the passage of time over many generations, makes possible, obviously, enormous processing power.</div>Nobilangelohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13944826985221698841noreply@blogger.com