There used to be a lot of talk about “junk DNA” which doesn’t do
anything, but I’ve gotten the impression (sorry, I can’t give
references) that more recently the “junk DNA” does play a role.
Also, adjacency or propinquity of genes on a chromosome affects
evolution (if I get one of the genes from a parent, I’m highly likely
to get the other also). I have no idea if it plays a role during the
life of a cell. I don’t know anything about how sexual reproduction
goes about building a new chromosome by selecting pieces from the
chromosomes of the parents, but on the face of it, changing the layout
(or in mathematical terms, the metric) could lead to omission or
duplication errors in the result.
TL;DR Be careful what you wish for.
—Barry
On 22 Jan 2021, at 18:37, Marcus Daniels wrote:
Most of the human genome doesn't express as proteins, so there should
be lots of room to store stuff.
Such technology is hardly science fiction, it's even FDA approved!
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-novel-gene-therapy-treat-patients-rare-form-inherited-vision-loss
-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2021 2:43 PM
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Subject: [FRIAM] tangent from uncanny valley
The idea of posthuman came up (yes it was me) in another thread. This
article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-020-00711-4 opens an
interesting door: "reprogramming" DNA by inserting new data into
living DNA. After all a program is just another form of data. This
might be orthogonal to genetic (re)engineering.
davew
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