Friday, April 7, 2017

Ooooooh!

Ooooooh!

"In nearly every other animal, RNA—the middleman in that process—faithfully transmits the message in the genes. But octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (but not their dumber relatives, the nautiluses) edit their RNA, changing the message that gets read out to make proteins."

They are able to self-edit brain-related biology!?!?! Oooooooh!

#cephalopods #rna #awesomeness
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/cephalopod-gene-editing/