genetics

UV light, H2O, and epigenetic effects… (2)

September 27, 2020
James Kohl
Adaptations, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Physics, RNA interference
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UV light, H2O, and epigenetic effects… (1) 9/25/20 During the 9/26/20 “Benghazi and Twin Towers Memorial Ride and Veterans Event” at Band of Brothers Veterans Park in Murphy, North Carolina,  DW (Del) Wilber ( guest speaker and “Counterterrorism Analyst”) reminded me that in 2006, Greg Bear’s Quantico was near future, hard counterterrorism science fiction. Historical perspective:Greg Bear is the author of more than thirty books, spanning thrillers, science fiction, and fantasy, including Blood Music, Eon, The Forge of God, Darwin’s…

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MicroRNA-mediated denuclearization (2)

April 24, 2018
James Kohl
Adaptations, Autophagy, base editing, biophotonics, Cytosis, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, microRNA editing, Model Organisms, Physics, RNA Directed, RNA editing, RNA interference, RNA-directed DNA methylation, RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of gene expression, RNA-mediated gene silencing, RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity
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Summary: The virus-driven theft of quantized energy creates a cellular environment that promotes the survival and self-proliferation of viruses by encoding viral miRNAs or miRNA-like molecules. The viral miRNAs or miRNA-like molecules target different types of host cells. The sun’s anti-entropic virucidal energy biophysically constrains viral latency in the context of global control of human ES cell differentiation via circRNAs derived from lncRNAs. That fact refutes all neo-Darwinian gene-centric pseudoscientific nonsense. That fact also attests to the link from Chinese…

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Part 2: Light-controlled cell biology (revisited)

March 23, 2018
James Kohl
Adaptations, Alternative Splicings, Autophagy, biophotonics, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, RNA Directed
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Greg Bear took the lead with this approach in his novel Quantico (2006). A genetically engineered virus was used to erase the memory of a specifically targeted human population to reduce inter-ethnic conflict. [Greg Bear] …served as a consultant for NASA, the U.S. Army, the State Department, the International Food Protection Association, and Homeland Security on matters ranging from privatizing space to food safety, the frontiers of microbiology and genetics, and biological security. Greg Bear is a likely candidate for…

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Polymaths and paradigm shifts: From Asimov to Bear (5)

March 14, 2018
James Kohl
Adaptations, Alternative Splicings, base editing, biophotonics, Cytosis, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, microRNA editing, Model Organisms, Neuronal Plasticity, Nutrigenomics, Physics, RNA editing, RNA interference, RNA-directed DNA methylation, RNA-mediated gene silencing, RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity, Subatomic, What's in the News
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Summary: Neil deGrasse Tyson and Lawrence Krauss are among those who have continued to substitute pseudoscientific nonsense for legitimate facts, which is what Hawking did in every book he ever wrote, and each time he made a spurious claim based on his abilities as a conniving theorist whose works still have not been confirmed-and-validated. Now that he is gone, others may proclaim the greatness of his intellect and lionize the magnitude of his influence because they also are biologically uninformed…

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Polymaths and paradigm shifts: from Asimov to Bear (4)

March 14, 2018
James Kohl
Adaptations, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, RNA Directed
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Saying Goodbye to the RNA World Theory RNA has a limited ability for catalysis compared to peptides, and would have struggled to maintain its catalytic activity under the changing temperature conditions of early Earth. Carter and Wills also argued that if an RNA world existed, it would have been unlikely for it to incorporate peptides later on. See for comparison: Dependence of RNA synthesis in isolated thymus nuclei on glycolysis, oxidative carbohydrate catabolism and a type of “oxidative phosphorylation” (1964)…

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Autophagy is the antiphage defense strategy (2)

January 17, 2018
James Kohl
Adaptations, Alternative Splicings, Autophagy, biophotonics, Cytosis, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Light Energy, microRNA editing, Model Organisms, Nutrigenomics, RNA Directed, RNA editing, RNA interference, RNA methylation, RNA-directed DNA methylation, RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of gene expression, RNA-mediated gene silencing, RNA-mediated toxicity, RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity, Variations
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2/15/17 Energy as information and constrained endogenous RNA interference (video) The 6.46 minute-long technical presentation (above) from the Precision Medicine Virtual Conference is difficult to understand.Thus, 10 months later, Nik Willmore asked: 12/24/17 What are your insights into CRISPR and mTOR, for a young audience? I’m not mocking you…yet, Humpty Dumpty. What is the basis of your unifying principle? Vibration? Bohmian morphogenetic fields? Modified Darwin? God? –Nik Willmore @nikwillmore 12/25/17 Replying to @nikwillmore @jhewitt123 God created the anti-entropic virucidal energy of sunlight and…

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From base editing to RNA editing

October 27, 2017
James Kohl
Adaptations, Alternative Splicings, base editing, biophotonics, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Light Energy, Physics, RNA editing, RNA-directed DNA methylation, RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity, Variations
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Base Editing Now Able to Convert Adenine-Thymine to Guanine-Cytosine “Nature conveniently provides us with cytosine deaminase enzymes that operate on DNA,” Liu tells The Scientist. The creation of quantized energy in sunlight links energy as information from electrons to ecosystems via the physiology of reproduction in all living genera. The claim that “Nature” provides us with cytosine deaminase enzymes makes it seem that the enzymes emerged and automagically evolved to become purposeful and meaningful in the context of ridiculous theories…

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Energy-dependent physical and biophysical constraints (3)

July 25, 2017
James Kohl
Adaptations, biophotonics, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Human Brain, Human Pheromones, Light Energy, Model Organisms, Neuronal Plasticity, Nutrigenomics, Physics, RNA Directed, RNA-directed DNA methylation, RNA-mediated epigenetic regulation of gene expression, RNA–Mediated Epigenetic Heredity, Variations
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See first: Energy-dependent physical and biophysical constraints (2) Emily Balskus Pins Down the Chemistry and Metabolism of Human Microbiomes Summary: The chemistry and metabolism of all microbiomes is food energy-dependent and pheromone-controlled via the physiology of reproduction. See: Feedback loops link odor and pheromone signaling with reproduction My comment to The Scientist: …trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline (Hyp) dehydratase, a newly discovered member of an abundant family of proteins, produced by gut bacteria, known as the glycyl radical enzymes, helps in metabolizing trans-Hyp, an…

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God’s shrinking role in salvation (2)

June 14, 2017
James Kohl
Adaptations, biophotonics, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Physics, RNA Directed, Variations
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Conclusion: There is no such thing as a blind dance of atoms. Quantized energy-dependent changes link angstroms to ecosystems in all living genera via the physiology of reproduction. Serious scientists do not link “high-level cause and purposes” to anything that does not link what organisms eat from food energy to the physiology of reproduction. Only pseudoscientists claim that ideas about “emergence” are “…a remarkable synthesis across fields and levels.” See: God’s shrinking role in salvation These 6 Common Vegetables Are…

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From precis to pre-mRNA and proof of concept in F1, F2, F3

November 7, 2016
James Kohl
Adaptations, Alternative Splicings, Diseases & Disorders, Ecology, Human Brain, Human Pheromones, Model Organisms, RNA Directed, RNA methylation, RNA-directed DNA methylation, Variations
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The Gene Ontology Handbook, edited by Christophe Dessimoz & Nives Škunca Open Access, Download it here See also: New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives November 7-9, 2016 See also: BioGenomics 2017 – Global Biodiversity Genomics Conference February 21-23, 2017 See also: Using fast-acting temperature-sensitive mutants to study cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans Conclusion: The current limiting factor in using this technology is the availability of fast-acting ts alleles. Previous forward genetic screens for ts alleles…

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