all of this is to say that the sons of bitches who published this have managed to take an unfathomably complex and incredibly delicate molecular machine developed over god knows how many millions of years such that its orientation is the same in all known life,
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and somehow managed to get this entire 3D configuration perfectly inverted to work on DNA that is DNA it just spins the wrong way im in awe
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eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot
a few end notes the reason they want to make a "DNase" ie an enzyme that chops up DNA is because all of the existing DNases only work on D-DNA and so if they keep making this shit it will be hard to dispose of elegantly I guess?https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1420952819901755393?s=19 …
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RNA polymerase is a molecule that goes down a DNA strand and translates the DNA into instructions for making protein. they made a left hand version of this too apparentlypic.twitter.com/IVRzAxYqbf
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ribosomes are enormous multi-part protein machines that take RNA and turn it into proteins left is sort of what ours looks like, right is a bacterial version I guess they're making these nextpic.twitter.com/uE9ZMFNsyf
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overall I dont know what the fuck is going on but the fact that this is not only possible but an accomplished feat is making me think that molecular biology is way more advanced than is commonly understood and things are gonna get Weird real real fast good luck out there
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will try to answer questions, please keep in mind that I was never a great biology student and I haven't studied anything since the mid aughts
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"why is this named so and so" biology is a field full of sickos. for example they named a gene that mutates and kills people "Sonic Hedgehog" as a joke and now doctors have to tell moms their kid is dying because of a sonic hedgehog mutationhttps://twitter.com/NLRG_/status/1420965217060655106?s=19 …
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they would probably be like us but we couldnt eat them. and vice versa. I mean we could but maybe a bunch of the molecules would be the wrong chirality so we couldnt digest them with our enzymeshttps://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1420966805955223555?s=19 …
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This sounds like it could allow doctors (engineers?) to be way more aggressive with invasive technologies because they knew our bodies would not interact with them.
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hmmm what kind of use case do you have in mind? I think for a lot of cases things like certain metals and plastics are already not particularly bio-interactive, and for things that need to be kept alive they would struggle because they require different isomers of sugar etc
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I don't actually know enough to create informed questions. I just assumed putting stuff which could interact with DNA into the body could cause unintended effects and this would eliminate those risks. If that's not a real problem then ignore me.
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