DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties

DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet

Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.

Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.

In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences. No one knows how individual DNA strands could possibly be communicating in this way, yet somehow they do. The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for scientists.

“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,” said the authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.

This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/...ound-to-ha.html

Perhaps it is done magnetically.
Is it possible they have enough magnetic minerals at just the right quantity, that singles each other out and causes the attraction.:shrug:

I don't know much on the subject, but I would assume that it is do chemical properties.

this will be an interesting one to follow. Right now Im suspecting it might not be reproducable... but if it is, like I said, this will be quite interesting.

This is true, and we've known it for quite awhile. There's a bacterium found inside volcanoes that's being looked at as to whether it could be modified for cleaning up toxic waste. The reason: the heat inside the volcano is so intense that it breaks, damages and destroys DNA. However, this bacterium has COPIES! It has DNA fragments in its cell that allow it to repair damage, so can live in a hostile environment. Since radiation also breaks DNA, they're looking at this bacterium as something that could survive in a highly radioactive environment and possibly be used to eat heavy metals and reduce them to something non-radioactive.

The DNA self-organizes the repair.

Proteins do this as well. I read that when we were first learning to make artificial proteins, the question was: How do we get them to fold properly? However, we soon discovered that if we just MAKE the protein, it folds by itself.

We're finding that biological self-organization is the rule rather than the exception.

Interesting. Thank you for sharing that.

A substance cannot be made non-radioactive through any chemical process, like reacting it with other chemicals, such as in a biological organism.