{"id":1172,"date":"2004-09-07T16:36:06","date_gmt":"2004-09-07T20:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2019-10-26T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T00:36:36","slug":"molecular-biology-state-of-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2004\/09\/07\/molecular-biology-state-of-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Biology State of the Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\">Science<\/a>, there\u2019s a decent milestone in where we\u2019re at in terms of integrating our molecular biology knowledge into classical genetics. If you subscribe, a summary is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/sci;305\/5689\/1383\">here<\/a>. Otherwise, use the \u201cfree sample issue\u201d link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, this group of scientists went back to the Galapagos and studied Darwin\u2019s finches. They isolated the protein that causes the beaks to be different, and manually turned it up and down, resulting in different shaped beaks. They then located the regulatory regions (governing said protien) as markers on the genome, and waved their hands at them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cool part about this is not its terrifying utility (it\u2019s not), nor how close it is to being broadly applicable (it\u2019s not). The cool part is that there does not seem to be a quantum \/ macro disconnect in biology like we have in physics. We can trace smoothly all the way up and down the continuum, and it\u2019s just experimental details and unobserved mechanisms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s Science, there\u2019s a decent milestone in where we\u2019re at in terms of integrating our molecular biology knowledge into classical genetics. If you subscribe, a summary is available here. Otherwise, use the \u201cfree sample issue\u201d link. Basically, this group of scientists went back&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}