So it came as rather a shock when, in several 2012 papers in Nature, he and the rest of the ENCODE team reported that at one time or another, at least 75 percent of the genome gets transcribed into RNAs. The ENCODE work, using techniques that could map RNA activity happening along genome sections, had begun in 2003 and came up with preliminary results in 2007. But not until five years later did the extent of all this transcription become clear. If only 1 to 2 percent of this RNA was encoding proteins, what was the rest for? Some of it, scientists knew, carried out crucial tasks such as turning genes on or off; a lot of the other functions had yet to be pinned down. Still, no one had imagined that three quarters of our DNA turns into RNA, let alone that so much of it could do anything useful.
tl;dr - We injected the world with mRNA, hacking at biology, using incomplete knowledge that was not only misunderstood - it may have been outright WRONG.
tl;dr - We injected the world with mRNA, hacking at biology, using incomplete knowledge that was not only misunderstood - it may have been outright WRONG.
Feels good to win. Purebloods ftw.
Imagine taking a mark upon your arm to be allowed to engage in commerce. Fairly sure there are some warnings about that somewhere.
I remember something about B East.
Something-something about a third of the population being affected...