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  • rna is a completely different molecule, with different properties and used differently by the cell.

    For one, rna is less stable than dna, it will fall appart quickly while for dna that process takes millennia.

    But more importantly various cell machinery will only accept dna or rna for their respective functions. The cell can put dna into a nucleus and still let rna move outwards to ribosomes for example.
    Ribosomes are built from rna and incompatible with dna, so there is an isolation ensuring dna can’t get “executed” unintentionally. There are also a large range of gene regulation mechanisms along this extended chain.
    Since evolution kinda codes randomly with whatever it has, this duplicated mechanism of storage will be used all over the place. For example here you can give short double stranded rna a suppression effect while keeping short double stranded dna free for a different purpose (like maybe crispr).


  • That would be wasting their market position.
    If vendors can expect say 10% of people to choose a non-windows option it would suffice for microsoft to offer a 20% discount in return for the vendor not offering such an option.

    10% might actually be a bit low, there are a lot of people willing to install windows themselves and use one of the comically easy unlock methods.


  • I don’t think so.
    To my knowledge that vaccine injects regular rna into cells to have them produce a protein of the virus, so the immune system starts to build antibodies that target the covid virus.

    Since it relies on protein building it uses the regular well-known mechanism where mRNA (messenger RNA) is copied from DNA (then complex shit happens which we will ignore) then it reaches the ribosomes that build proteins from the encoded sequence.

    The discussed application for this rna silencing is more active, it directly suppresses some genes of the virus to stop it from infecting cells.


  • It started with the flowers of a purple petunia plant turning white, and ended with a human cell becoming resistant to the deadly embrace of the Aids virus. The intervening decade took in experiments with yeasts, microscopic worms, mice and flies. And they all pointed to one thing: a potential revolution in medical science.