[betty boop]

If DNA is a passive code, what codes for its activity? If gene regulation by a network of transcripts is now more important than genes, what regulates the regulators?

"What regulates the regulators?" is the 64-million-dollar question.... I've seen some fascinating speculations about this involving the quantum domain and spontaneous emissions of photons by the yet-deeper universal vacuum field, photons being information carriers that trigger the timing and place reactions essential for biological life occur. The next ten years will probably be a very fertile time for the biological sciences, provided adherents of the currently-reigning orthodoxies don't succeed in strangling such efforts in their cradle.... (It's beginning to seem to me that is the role and function of the peer-reviewed journals these days.)

Thanks so much for this fascinating post, GodGunsGuts!

[atlaw]

The next ten years will probably be a very fertile time for the biological sciences, provided adherents of the currently-reigning orthodoxies don't succeed in strangling such efforts in their cradle.... (It's beginning to seem to me that is the role and function of the peer-reviewed journals these days.)

For example, just look at the research made the subject of this thread. Oh, wait . . .

[Alamo-Girl]

The next ten years will probably be a very fertile time for the biological sciences, provided adherents of the currently-reigning orthodoxies don't succeed in strangling such efforts in their cradle.... (It's beginning to seem to me that is the role and function of the peer-reviewed journals these days.)

LOLOL! It certainly does seem that way sometimes.

[GodGunsGuts]

My pleasure.

[muawiyah]

Yes, too many MSM journalists have been laid off and now they're over there in the peer-review journals "fixing things".

Scientific orthodoxy reigns in the print media ~ only place you'll see speculation, or original research these days, is on the net, and fortunately everybody puts everything on the net.