[neverdem]

Second Cistron in CACNA1A Gene Encodes a Transcription Factor Mediating Cerebellar Development and SCA6.

[Former Fetus]

Awesome! Any suggestion on what controls the use of one IRE over the other one? (sorry, I haven’t had access to Cell in years)

[taxcontrol]

Hmmm, I am speculating that this just might an interesting development for DNA based computing ... depending on the two expression’s selectability. Might it be used as an AND gate??

There already exists an equivalent to a transistor. http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/march/bil-gates.html

[Telepathic Intruder]

So a mutant RNA doing a little more than it should, turning out extra proteins on the side. They probably can’t fix the mutation itself, but at least they know where the bad proteins are coming from. I don’t even know if it’s possible to somehow deactivate a gene, or part of the RNA itself.