56 links have been added on 16 ideas about #dna.
  1. DNA as in it’s unique fingerprint, But if you change a little bit the laws of nature, or you change a little bit the constants of nature—like the charge on the electron—then the way the universe develops is so changed, it is very likely that intelligent life would not have been able to develop.

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  2. I recommend you read this – not being rude but there seems to be more to it. I didn’t understand everything the author claimed but there is plenty of evidence that there is some fine-tuned DNA-like evolution going on somewhere up there.

  3. I guess the parameters are the fixed constants of nature. But there lies the problem. The Anthropic Principle is an unfalsifiable statement (aka. a tautology) that results from the “selection effect” of our own existence. Meanwhile, the fine-tuning argument is a surprising fact about the laws of nature as we know them.

  4. Monkey girls are go? God designed apes to show His creative power, but belief in man as a highly evolved ape may become a sign of judgment when man honors the creature rather than the Creator (Romans 1:24–25). Although man was created to know and glorify God, the first man and woman rebelled against Him for a satanic lie. Satan, the “father of lies,” deceived Eve by distorting the truth and leading her to doubt God’s Word (John 8:44). Eve was deceived, and Adam willfully ate the forbidden fruit. Their sin brought death and suffering into the world (Romans 5:12–14).

  5. Indeed, and furthermore “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them.”

  6. Nice idea but you got the wrong end of the stick, due to the facts this is based on. Actually The term has its roots in Genesis 1:27, wherein God created man in his own image. . .” This scriptural passage does not mean that God is in human form, but rather, that humans are in the image of God in their moral, spiritual, and intellectual nature.

  7. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed . . . Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”

  8. or did just some of the polymers arrive ready to seed the rest?

  9. A mandatory DNA testing law will likely face fierce opposition from privacy proponents.
    https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-are-using-newborn-genetic-screening

  10. A paternity test at birth could also help to protect an individual’s right to know their biological parents.

  11. A few jurisdictions have tried passing mandatory DNA testing laws at birth, though there’s nothing concrete.
    https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/bill-could-make-it-mandatory-for-unmarried-fathers-to-take-dna-test-to-sign-birth/article_e22bb2b8-11a1-57a5-8ade-5d3b46c4196a.html

  12. This needs to happen everywhere; there are too many cases of paternity fraud!

  13. The U.S. military is researching plant DNA markings to fight counterfeit goods!

  14. This is a great idea! We need new and unique ways of fighting counterfeiting, given how much it costs the global economy.
    https://www.uschamber.com/intellectual-property/back-to-school-business-and-law-enforcement-team-up-to-protect-students-parents-and-teachers-from-counterfeit-goods

  15. DNA is just another tool that law enforcement agencies can misuse!

  16. DNA evidence is a revolutionary technology that is helping solve decades-old cold cases that would have otherwise remained unsolved.
    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-were-cracking-cold-cases-dna-website-then-fine-print-n1070901

  17. Stranger than fiction, from the NASA website… “The myco-architecture project out of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley is prototyping technologies that could “grow” habitats on the Moon, Mars and beyond out of life – specifically, fungi and the unseen underground threads that make up the main part of the fungus, known as mycelia.”

  18. Too late if you want to keep the solar system clean of these little killers, they decide which plants they allow to exist on earth, and therefore we are only here but for the grace of fungi.

  19. …. and how viruses manage to hack the download so the info is corrupted.

  20. djloon

    The idea of folding DNA to create arbitrary two- and three-dimensional shapes at the nanoscale just blows my mind. Not sure who thought of it first but this idea and it’s future applications are going to go a long way. More info about it here.

  21. BTW, Oligos are short, synthetic strands of DNA or RNA. The word oligonucleotide is derived from the Greek word olígoi, meaning “few” or “small”, and nucleotide, which are the building blocks of nucleic acids, such as those in DNA.

  22. For the serious hobbyist, I guess…”If you are designing primers, cloning your genes or Do It Yourself CRISPR gene editing in Basic Research, Immuno-Oncology, Drug Discovery or any other application, check out our new custom DNA oligo prices.”

  23. careful what you wish for…

  24. like the idea, but read this first.

  25. LOL, may not be used much by kids of Indian dads who wanted a boy rather than a girl.

  26. Paley’s keystone claim was completely wrong. not sure why people still believe that “There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance, without a contriver; order, without choice; … means suitable to an end, and executing their office in accomplishing that end, without the end ever having been contemplated”

  27. Intelligent design, according to Its believers, is the same as Creationism – therefore, not an answer.

  28. urr, nope! “in Darwinian theory, grandparenting makes no sense! Grandparents contribute no ‘fitness genes’ to the grandchildren.” https://crev.info/2019/03/no-grandparents-are-not-products-of-evolution/

  29. True, I like this idea – makes sense. Furthermore, it’s grandparents that can help ensure you survive to pass THEIR genes on.

  30. “If DNA data storage ever does go mainstream, you might have Marlon Brando to thank. Or at least, Olgica Milenkovic’s admiration for him.

    Dr. Milenkovic, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is one of the pioneers of the effort to store data on DNA. Her first paper, in 2015, used IDT’s gBlocks Gene Fragments to demonstrate random access and information rewriting on a DNA-based storage system. Her second used gBlocks and an Oxford Nanopore Sequencer 7.0 to encode text-oriented files from Wikipedia, then extended that to images.

    Brando made DNA storage history with Milenkovic’s third paper. In that study, her team used oPools to encode eight Brando images in a more cost-effective approach to storage.

    “I was very biased,” she said of the decision to use Brando. “I always loved his movies.”