Researchers found a fix for a 3-billion-year-old glitch in one of the major carriers of information needed for life, RNA, which until now produced errors when making copies of genetic information. The discovery will increase precision in genetic research and could dramatically improve medicine based on a person’s genetic makeup.
Put into a philosophical context, it is comforting that the error prone process worked reasonably well for 3-billion-years and it is encouraging that we (humans) learned how to improve it.
Source: Fix for 3-billion-year-old genetic error could dramatically improve genetic sequencing
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