The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology has never been seriously challenged. Here is your chance: can you conceive of a mechanism whereby genetic information can flow directly from proteins to nucleic acids?
Post a comment
Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.
Your Information
(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)
Nature knows no dogma.
The simplest case would be a protein that excises a whole gene. If that's too crude, I find it easy enough to believe in a protein that recognizes a particular sequence, and substitutes one base for another in a specified position, e.g. turning FOXP2 from simian to human form.
Details, please, on the prize?
Elio's reply. Plane ticket to Stockholm is in the mail
Posted by: Nathan Myers | November 12, 2009 at 06:30 PM