tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post5733942296514777964..comments2022-03-14T03:54:41.147-04:00Comments on Liminal Hose: more impressed with cephalopods than myself - taking consciousness to the next level!Dale Asberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144102722000937328noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-40638617297249502902017-04-10T10:27:55.851-04:002017-04-10T10:27:55.851-04:00They haven't. However... they seem incredibly ...They haven't. However... they seem incredibly adaptive to a number of different environments. My biggest interest is that it's a new tool to add to the human-driven G.O.D. toolset and maybe an exemplar for protein modification.Dale Asberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12144102722000937328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-80488069929002051322017-04-10T09:04:53.104-04:002017-04-10T09:04:53.104-04:00Nah, I don't believe that evolution proceeds b...Nah, I don't believe that evolution proceeds by random mutation. But then, have cephalopod mollusc forms changed dramatically over the course of geologic time?CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-87558967608007211032017-04-10T08:21:44.330-04:002017-04-10T08:21:44.330-04:00Are you suggesting that it's a dead-end?Are you suggesting that it's a dead-end?Dale Asberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12144102722000937328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-7416386007219407062017-04-09T09:13:08.993-04:002017-04-09T09:13:08.993-04:00More on the denizens of r'lyeh http://www.pops...More on the denizens of r'lyeh http://www.popsci.com/octopuses-can-basically-tinker-with-their-own-genes-on-fly#page-4<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyehCNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-83259157430914629932017-04-07T10:31:46.580-04:002017-04-07T10:31:46.580-04:00This here is very exciting gain-of-function isht. ...This here is very exciting gain-of-function isht. They change their RNA function based on environmental feedback. Damn. All the genetic engineering going on should take a look at what these beings are up to.Dale Asberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12144102722000937328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1020906429716189475.post-69996410605651626262017-04-07T09:44:44.386-04:002017-04-07T09:44:44.386-04:00Xenoporphs:
"Coleoid cephalopods “change the...Xenoporphs:<br /><br />"Coleoid cephalopods “change the amino acid code, so you have a big diversification of the proteome, which you don’t see in any other animals,” <a href="http://www.su.se/mbw/research/research-groups/molecular-cell-biology/group-%C3%B6hman" rel="nofollow">Marie Öhman</a>, who studies RNA editing in the mammalian brain at Stockholm University in Sweden and did not participate in the work, told <em>The Scientist</em>. “That it’s so extensive is really amazing.”<br /><br /> “When we started looking into this we really didn’t know if this massive recoding was more of a bug or more of a feature,” said coauthor Noa Liscovitch-Brauer, a postdoc at Tel Aviv University in Israel. “What we show here is that it is probably advantageous, and this is something special that only they do.”<br /><br /> “Most organisms have very few functional [editing] sites in coding regions,” said coauthor <a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/~elieis/" rel="nofollow">Eli Eisenberg</a> of Tel Aviv University. “This is why we find it so unusual and surprising that in squid, octopus, and cuttlefish, we see exactly the opposite.”<br /><br />http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49153/title/Cephalopod-Genomes-Contain-Thousands-of-Conserved-RNA-Editing-Sites/&utm_campaign=NEWSLETTER_TS_The-Scientist-Daily_2016&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50176304&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_zXVRRKGZUcnzH1bdKOJyBdOrCfLwE3YT21NWQ-JVdHLArs8k9yRtujXsNkZFvai32ChyJCYlzK1T6oHfgI9jEG159og&_hsmi=50176304CNuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14152640304402402884noreply@blogger.com