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Der Erfolg der Evolutionstheorie, später der Genetik und dann der Kombination beider in der »Synthetischen Evolutionstheorie« oder »New Synthesis« hatte die Biologie zur Königin der Wissenschaften gemacht.
Andreas Weber • Alles fühlt (German Edition)
Characterizing the landscape of gene expression variance in humans
Julien F Ayrolespmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govNeil Hawkesford
@neilh
Now for a wild fact—only about 5 percent of DNA constitutes genes. The remaining 95 percent? The dizzyingly complex on/off switches, the means by which various environmental influences regulate unique networks of genes, with multiple types of switches on a single gene and multiple genes being regulated by the same type of switch.
Robert M. Sapolsky • Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
“Perhaps the most exciting finding of this study is that Dicer can be reengineered,” their 2006 paper noted.4 It was a very useful discovery. It permitted researchers to use RNA interference to turn off a wide variety of genes, both to discover what each gene does and to regulate its activity for medical purposes.
Walter Isaacson • The Code Breaker
how to write algorithms that could change their code and get smarter as they develop. We now call this evolutionary programming.