The Unsolved Mystery of DNA's Telepathic Communication (A Galaxy Classic)

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. The explanation: None, at least not yet.

Scientists report 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, 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.

Posted by Rebecca Sato.

Source: ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Comments

[John M]

So what have they leaned about it since January, 2008?

[Bertrand Ducharme]

Here is a citation from the original report: "We hypothesize that the origin of this recognition may be as follows. In-register alignment of phosphate strands with grooves on opposing DNA minimizes unfavorable electrostatic interactions between the negatively charged phosphates and maximizes favorable interactions of phosphates with bound counterions. DNAs with identical sequences will have the same structure and will stay in register over any juxtaposition length. Nonhomologous DNAs will have uncorrelated sequence-dependent variations in the local pitch that will disrupt the register over large juxtaposition length. The register may be restored at the expense of torsional deformation, but the deformation cost will still make juxtaposition of nonhomologous DNAs unfavorable."

However, you write in your post "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". It seems to me a very different claim.

[Nadir Sufi]

the only explanation is: "God Exists"

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@Bertrand Ducharme

This is a copy-paste/re-post at the Daily Galaxy. You should contact them and submit your findings/research.

[beebs]

AETHER and CYMATICS is the answer.

[dirk alan]

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[MichaelG]

Has anyone thought of dumpster diving through the junk DNA? It's in there somewhere or are the researchers afraid of the unknown.

[Alex]

much like entanglement in nano technology

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[Dov Henis]

Update Your Life Concept

Junky Dark Genome Parts?

"Genetic Dark Matter"
Searching for new sources to explain human variation
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/66917/title/Genetic_Dark_Matter

"Genome may be mostly junk after all"
http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/65098/title/Genome_may_be_mostly_junk_after_all

Genomes, both DNA and RNA, are template ORGANISMS evolved, produced and employed by Earth's base primal organisms, the RNAs, for carrying out life processes, i.e. for enhancing RNAs reproduction for enhancing Earth's bio-energy constraint as much and as long as possible. This is the essence of life, of natural selection. It is the temporary postponement of life's constrained energy from being spent as fuel for the ongoing cosmos expansion.

Genomes serve the purpose of the RNAs just as we serve this-their purpose. The compositions of genomes are their evolutionary conglomerations, just as our compositions are, as the compositions of ALL Earth's organisms.

Just as some organs became superfluous in many other organisms in the course of their evolution likewise some genome sections become thus superfluous in the genomes.

EARTH'S HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND STILL IS AN RNA LIFE.

Science should adjust its vision, comprehension and concepts.

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/user/profile/1655.page

Seed of Human-Chimp Genomes Diversity
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2SF3CJJM5OU6T27OC4MFQSDYEU/blog/articles/53079
03.2010 Updated Life Manifest
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/54.page#5065
Cosmic Evolution Simplified
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/240/122.page#4427
Gravity Is The Monotheism Of The Cosmos
http://www.the-scientist.com/community/posts/list/260/122.page#4887
Evolution, Natural Selection, Derive From Cosmic Expansion
http://darwiniana.com/2010/09/05/the-question-reductionists-fear/

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[Annas]

Very very interesting. And very unexpected, no one could imagine in their dreams that DNA could possibly recognise its 'similar' and move towards it without any signal or aid from protein or even ATP