I agree with very little in the site. But the Doctor does admit in the Ted video to the DNA changing nature of mRNA
“I agree with very little in the site. But the Doctor does admit in the Ted video to the DNA changing nature of mRNA”
I didn’t like its background apps.
It’s true in theory it could integrate in to chromosomes.
Generally RNA isn’t going to integrate. But I have never heard the question of what might happen to people who have retroviral infections with a reverse transcriptase potentially available.
Also, just because it’s unlikely RNA will not integrate in to a chromosome doesn’t mean it can’t happen (which is what he indicated) by an uncharacterized mechanism.
Nucleic acids can do a lot of things people never thought they can do.
Not exactly.
From the article itself:
At one minute in, Zaks states, “In every cell there’s this thing called messenger RNA or mRNA for short, that transmits the critical information from the DNA in our genes to the protein, which is really the stuff we’re all made out of. This is the critical information that determines what the cell will do. So we think about it as an operating system. …. So if you could actually change that, … if you could introduce a line of code, or change a line of code, it turns out, that has profound implications for everything, from the flu to cancer.”
It's not altering DNA...the messanger RNA can alter the instructions from DNA to make the protein(s).
So, while mRNA can alter, or affect, how a protein is supposed to be "made" based on the instructions from DNA...it's not altering DNA.
Basically, think of it as a "middle man" getting the message wrong from the source to the destination...that can alter the destination.
NOT saying this is a good thing...necessarily, but messenger RNA (as of today) can not alter DNA.
Remember...DNA is NOT a protein, it's a nucleotide.