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Tag: RNA

Cell biology

How a cell protects itself

It sounds like a scheme. But the big question isn’t how cells protect themselves by very complex mechanisms but why? Boulders don’t seek to avoid becoming sand. Something is different about life that mechanical explanations do not address.

Posted on June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 Author News Comments(3)
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Deemed “officially weirder”: Octopuses edit their RNA in response to environment

Well, first, we don’t really know for sure that no other life form does this. Maybe others do and we haven’t caught up to them yet. It would be easier to place in a context if we had a group to study rather than an outlier.

Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 Author News Comment(1)

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