[Skywise]

"So it came as rather a shock when, in several 2012 papers in Nature, he and the rest of the ENCODE team reported that at one time or another, at least 75 percent of the genome gets transcribed into RNAs. The ENCODE work, using techniques that could map RNA activity happening along genome sections, had begun in 2003 and came up with preliminary results in 2007. But not until five years later did the extent of all this transcription become clear. If only 1 to 2 percent of this RNA was encoding proteins, what was the rest for? Some of it, scientists knew, carried out crucial tasks such as turning genes on or off; a lot of the other functions had yet to be pinned down. Still, no one had imagined that three quarters of our DNA turns into RNA, let alone that so much of it could do anything useful."

And so we played God and injected the world with mRNA using hacked biology... using knowledge we not only misunderstood but may have been outright wrong about.

[bert]

——RNA wraps itself around one X chromosome (selected at random in each cell) to induce persistent changes that silence the genes.——

The result can be that persons with XY chromosomes have the urge to wear dresses

[DSH]

A fascinating article in many respects. Thanks for posting it.

[MikelTackNailer]

[Uncle Miltie]

Good think nobody’s been messing wit your mRNA.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

“It appears that we may have fundamentally misunderstood the nature of genetic programming,” wrote molecular biologists Kevin Morris of Queensland University of Technology and John Mattick of the University of New South Wales in Australia in a 2014 article.

Isn't it refreshing to hear a scientist admit they were wrong.

[Pelham]

What do you call it when the virus uses the very same mRNA that creates the spike protein?

Is the virus “playing God” too, or do you see some big difference?

[NonValueAdded]

code segments and data segments, why so surprising?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this data re potential long range RNA disasters.