people need to remember DNA is three dimentionsional not jsust a straight helix. There is a ball of the DNA with RNA ziping around doing their reading and producing.
These civilian reports are usually full of holes in the real science.
A single cell has proteins that can stretch out 6 feet long. How all this is packed into a single cell is the science of protein folding.
For those that are so inclined, please visit the latest thread on the Stanford University Folding@Home distributed computing project.
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