Posted on 08/23/2010 1:45:21 PM PDT by The Comedian
Geneticists have found the culprit causing a common form of muscular dystrophy—zombie DNA. Sort of. They've discovered that long-inactive genes—so-called junk DNA lying dormant in the human genome for thousands of years—"can rise from the dead like zombies" and cause trouble, explains Gina Kolata in the New York Times. This is the first time they've witnessed the feat, which they spell out in the journal Science.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/science/20gene.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
(Excerpt) Read more at newser.com ...
Kinda like a retrovirus.
Survival strategy? NOT!
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