Re: We thought we had just one genome. It turns out we have trillions.

Nov 30, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1 Replies


That would be per individual and not across the entire population... >


> "Novel links between genes and disease are constantly emerging inside every tissue – yet have remained invisible to traditional genetics approaches. Illuminating beneficial and disease-causing variants can open vast potential to develop novel medicines that imitate or inhibit a variant’s impact."
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> This UK research startup has partnered with some with fairly sizeable and established corporations to bring this technology into practice soon.
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Everybody's genome gets corrupted as it gets copied - not by all that much, but there are billions of cells involved. We known that since we've known that we had a genome.

We've known that cancer cells are cells with corrupted genomes since the 1960's. That's pretty specific.

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We've known about transposable elements for a while. Barbara McClintock's discovery of them in 1951 earned her a Nobel Prize in 1983.

There's no mechanism that could let the brain orchestrate their activity. You really are remarkably ill-informed.

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