Adam Fields (weblog)

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3/23/2005

Evidence that cells may be able to restore from ancestral genetic backups

Filed under: — adam @ 11:55 am

Wow.

A study was was published this week in Nature that “suggests that plants, and perhaps other organisms including humans, might possess a back-up mechanism that can bypass unhealthy sequences from their parents and revert to the healthier genetic code possessed by their grandparents or great-grandparents.”

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050321/full/050321-8.html


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