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Eskaminagaga t1_ixxzl04 wrote

Reply to comment by TheFormless0ne in Scientists Have Found a Way To Manipulate Digital Data Stored in DNA by Sorin61

So data could already be stored in DNA form. Each of the 4 acids being present in a strand of DNA being associated with digital data. Just build a stand of DNA encoded with that digital data. Now, they have found a way to alter sections of that DNA like you can change digital data.

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aloneforevaprolly t1_ixz5c9y wrote

Doesn’t translation and transcription already do this with Okazaki fragments & tRNA?

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OkConstruction4591 t1_ixzu63a wrote

I'm not quite sure what that has to do with encoding digital data, since Okazaki fragments are, AFAIK, involved in replication of DNA and neither transcription nor translation, and are also complementary to the template DNA strand so no "new" data is really being created... I guess you could say that those specific 'bits' are being inverted, but I fail to see how this is linked to the article...

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aloneforevaprolly t1_ixzuvn7 wrote

It’s also involved in cell proliferation which is why I wondered about new data. Because it does create new “data” and doesn’t just replicate from mRNA

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OkConstruction4591 t1_ixzyoh5 wrote

Could you elaborate on how exactly it is involved in cell proliferation, in your perspective? I don't think we're on the same page here.

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aloneforevaprolly t1_iy00pln wrote

Because the codon that makes up Okazaki fragments are genes or new genetic information. I was wondering what the difference is between what our bodies naturally do to create new biological information compared to what this article refers to.

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Eskaminagaga t1_ixzh2i9 wrote

I dont know enough about the process to be able to answer that

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aloneforevaprolly t1_ixzi8bk wrote

Essentially Okazaki fragments are codons (a combination of 3 Nucleic acids) that are replicated and produced over and over and later added to the lagging strand of DNA. During this process the codons are not all the same and it’s creating new data in a sense. Just I was just curious as to what the difference was because it’s very interesting

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