James Le Fanu: Why Us? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Saturday, June 20, 2009, 19:00 (5633 days ago) @ John Clinch

that much DNA appears to be "junk." But we've only just found this out. The current task is to establish exactly how this relatively limited recipe cooks up to such a richly diverse set of phenotypes. As it happens, I personally know someone (there are obviously many others) actually carrying out research into this field - about the process of morphology and epigenetics ... at the Wellcome Foundation. It's happening right now and we can be reasonably confident that we will have a very good idea some time later this century. - Talk with your friend again. There are now six different types of interference and micro DNA's that help to manage gene expression. It appears that a great portion of 'junk' DNA will be useful RNA. I'm just finishing an article on Epigenetic Research in the Quarterly Review of Biololgy, June issue, that is more a compendium of the research than reaching conclusions at this point. There are four or five schemes of epigenetic systems, znd Lemarkism is making a comeback of sorts. There is viral junk, but how much true junk is unknown at this time.