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Joanie February 28th, 2009

DNA FOUND TO HAVE “IMPOSSIBLE” TELEPATHIC PROPERTIES
Daily Galaxy
February 3, 2009

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

Dna47_3_2 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.

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