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DNA Directly Observed for the First Time
This is too awesome not to share with Victory Road members who has yet to come across this.
I'm sure that if we have taken a basic biology class, we all know what DNA is. Since it might have been awhile, DNA is basically a double-helix polymer that determines you and I. No one disputes the fact that DNA is the brain of what we are, and for sometime, we all knew structure of DNA in the mid 20th century courtesy of X-ray scans. http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt...h-51-image.jpg Though the double helix structure is widely accepted and pretty much confirmed, we haven't directly seen the DNA structure until recently. Behold, direct evidence of the DNA structure that we know and love. http://www.newscientist.com/article/...irst-time.html
For those who need Scientific Rigor
Today must be a great day for molecular biology and that we can further find more about genetics and what we are biologically. It'd be interesting how much further that Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering will go in the next 20 years... |
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Though, given today's education systems... Yeah, I can see the point. I'd imagine that this can be very useful to prevent severe genetic defects... right? |
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Probably in the near future as we continue to progress towards learning all that we can about DNA. The initial altering of DNA would probably cost a fortune to order, just as ordering a cloned body part for a person using their own DNA would cost a fortune in the current times.
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