Mike Malaska on Nostr: #astrobiology thread time! This paper flips everything you thought you knew about ...
#astrobiology thread time!
This paper flips everything you thought you knew about biology on it's head. Has implications for sex determination, and even diseases. Huge implications for astrobiology, too.
We were all taught that DNA and RNA and nucleotide-based genes are responsible for heredity, right?
And also that proteins and amyloids are always bad, right?
Well, maybe that's not quite all true...
Ergolu et al., Nature Cell Biology 2024
Link (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-024-01494-9
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This paper flips everything you thought you knew about biology on it's head. Has implications for sex determination, and even diseases. Huge implications for astrobiology, too.
We were all taught that DNA and RNA and nucleotide-based genes are responsible for heredity, right?
And also that proteins and amyloids are always bad, right?
Well, maybe that's not quite all true...
Ergolu et al., Nature Cell Biology 2024
Link (paywall): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41556-024-01494-9
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