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ok nevermind science is cool again and im glad i did an undergraduate in biochemistry so i could appreciate it in my senescencehttps://twitter.com/djinnius/status/1076037324276785153 …
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*ahem* in 2018, it was discovered that the arc1 gene causes neurons to emit retroviruses.
It is now believed that retroviruses descend from eukaryotic life, and that the ~30% of our exon DNA of retroviral origin is, not infection, but rather the traces of recursive editing.
1:14 AM - 21 Dec 2018
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