DNA Found to Have "Impossible" Telepathic Properties

hamelekim

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I thought this was an interesting article. I didn't see it in any of the searches I did. Of course there are plenty of people who are now linking this to telepathic abilities in humans. "spooky" action at a distance. It will be interesting to find out how DNA does this though.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/02/dna-found-to-ha.html

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.
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I tried to quickly find the study it was referring to, but had no luck. I might do a bigger search tomorrow if I can.

Still, usually it's lay people who interpret scientists suggesting a lack of certainty in something as being baffled. Although until I read the paper, I can't possibly even guess as to the views of the researchers in charge.

Athon
 
I didn't take the link but the source smells fishy to me. Is there a list of authors that I can run through PubMed or Google Scholar?
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
I didn't take the link but the source smells fishy to me. Is there a list of authors that I can run through PubMed or Google Scholar?
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Don't be lazy next time.

the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B....
authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.
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It's unusual in that one usually thinks of complementary sequences binding together, but is this so very different from the crystallisation of molecules from mixtures. The effect appears to be only a 2-fold improvement over chance and they're talking about effects over more than 1 nanometre. If I could get within 1 nanometre of someone else's brain, I might have some telepathic abilities!
 
UnrepentantSinner said:
Don't chastize me for something I'm not guilty of. I don't take links when I'm at work. At least have your facts straight before mouthing off m'kay?
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Then give more information. I'm not a mind reader you know, and I certainly am not going to quiz you on why you won't visit the link. I did enough to post it as is, and I certainly wouldn't know that you work at night time. You have no problem visiting this site at work but a link to an obvious science, non porn, website is forbidden?

You could have said that you were at work and couldn't visit the site, but you decided that information wasn't important I guess. You'd rather we all just guess .
 
If this proves to be true, it would have amazing potential for explaining early life.
 
hamelekim said:
I thought this was an interesting article. I didn't see it in any of the searches I did. Of course there are plenty of people who are now linking this to telepathic abilities in humans. "spooky" action at a distance. It will be interesting to find out how DNA does this though.
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According to this website: http://www.livescience.com/health/080124-dna-telepathy.html
Although it looks as if spooky action or telepathic recognition is going on, DNA operates under the laws of physics, not the supernatural.

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The electrically charged chains of sugars and phosphates of double helixes of DNA cause the molecules to repel each other. However, identical DNA double helixes have matching curves, meaning they repel each other the least, Leikin explained.
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LLH
 
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