Title: Virus found to adapt through newly discovered path of evolution.
Source: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180329141037.htm
Petrie and colleagues found that a single gene sometimes yields multiple different proteins. The lambda virus evolved a protein sequence that was prone to structural instability that results in the creation of at least two different host-recognition proteins. Fortunately for the virus — but not its host — these different types of proteins can exploit different locks.
tRNAs were known to do this 10 years ago. It’s a nice experiment, it’s a lovely experiment, but it is not a new type of evolution. It just is that those systems have evolved to be a little sloppy transcriptionally or translationally because “a little sloppy” benefits long term evolution too. It may have been how our immune systems started.
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NEWSWEEK, Even science magazines want to scream “hey look at me” given any opportunity 😏 Settle down people take it with a grain of salt ☺. And it doesn’t mean that they set out to intentionally deceive you necessarily.
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