The Big Bang (Origins)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, May 23, 2010, 23:57 (5076 days ago) @ David Turell

David,
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> http://www.physorg.com/news192282850.html
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> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100428093929.htm
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> http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7294/full/nature09000.html-At this point I think we're just at a divide. The researcher responsible for biochemical gene path mapping has given several lectures on this topic. Jim Rogers is his name. He worked as a biochemist during the 90's when drug companies were trying to map genome functions. The complexity on these biochemical pathways was arising because they rapidly discovered that it isn't the case that 1 gene maps to 1 function. If you shut down one gene in a particular pathway, a different gene often takes up its place. So essentially, there's a great many genes inside of all living things that can be used, co-opted, whatever you want to call it--in order to acheive similar if not identical results. This shattered the bubble of early to mid-90's biotech investment and since then investors are wary. -New work on mapping genome to protein pathways is using the sophistication of computers to map these pathways so that for particular diseases we'll be able to find knockouts that will actually work. -> > 
> > [EDIT] As an addition to my paragraph on 1, I posit that life is only functionally similar today. Not necessarily structurally.
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> What does this mean???-It means that one possibility to entertain is that what we observe now in terms of structure and function in relationship to genes may have been warped several times over so that although the same function(s) of life are being served, the structures that create those functions are different.-Is that any better? (Not sure myself.)

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