Telepathy Gene Mutha****ers!

[Atomic_Piggy]

Nah, I'm just fooling you. Nothing that cool. Just this:

http://www.physorg.com/news120735315.html

Genetic 'telepathy'? A bizarre new property of DNA
Scientists are reporting evidence that intact, double-stranded DNA has the ?amazing? ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. And then like friends with similar interests, the bits of genetic material hangout or congregate together. The recognition ? of similar sequences in DNA?s chemical subunits ? occurs in a way once regarded as impossible, the researchers suggest in a study scheduled for the Jan. 31 issue of ACS? Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues say the homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins, factors once regarded as essential for the phenomenon.

This recognition may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes ? a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings thus may shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which underpin cancer, aging, and other health problems.

In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences.

?Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,? said the authors.

 

[Darkside55]

Misleading titles get you lynched. I'm gonna kill you with mind bullets.

 

[Dan]

It makes sense that similar sequences would combine together, they would have the same sequence of polarities in their individual bonds.

 

[Eejit]

This recognition may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes ? a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings thus may shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which underpin cancer, aging, and other health problems.

It doesn't "underpin" them, it's one factor in double-stranded break repair, which is one of several ways that mutations can fail to be properly repaired. It's hardly the holy grail -.-
Telomeres and telomerase for example are generally thought to be far more important with regards to aging.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Read about this in the paper, interesting stuff if guff

 

[MJ12]

Still awesome news. But misleading thread indeed, eradicateee the piggy.

 

[Dekstar]

I wasn't disappointed. I knew the thread was gonna be about this before I even clicked.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

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[ríomhaire]

I remember hearing once that when you kiss someone your bodies somehow are able to 'taste' each other and find out how genetically similar you are to the person you're kissing. The more diversity the better the kiss feels to you. This is to promote genetic variation and spreading of genes. Could be a load of crap though.

Also, could this not have something to do with pheromones? We all know that different people have different scents.