I don't know what's scarier. The fact that half the commenters didn't read that far into the article or that they couldn't figure out for themselves that fresh food is not all food.
AmidFuror
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Seth Brundle would be a good intermediate.
I'm thinking that entertainment reporters aren't the smartest or most talented people in their line of work.
I mean, it is a clickbait headline, because it does not make the context clear.
The foreskin research is just the tip of the spear for this promising, if sensitive, area. Even if they make errors and have to retract, there's nothing stopping what's coming.
They've had the map of Drosophila for a while, but this may be the first time it was connected to a simulated body. Fruit flies have ~125,000 neurons compared to C. elegans with 302.
Just be thankful I didn't bring up the Hundred Acre Wood.
Looks like they evolved DNA polymerases that are able to incorporate RNA or DNA bases when copying a DNA or RNA template. This is the first time a DNA polymerase has been known to have this capability. But, of course, there are already transcriptases that copy DNA to RNA and reverse transcriptases that go the other way around.
Natural enzymes tend to evolve for specialized roles. In nature, there are going to be RNA and DNA bases around all the time, and you don't want to randomly incorporate them in mixtures.
I guess the advantage here is that these have higher fidelity, so they could be very useful for molecular biologists who want accurate RNAs or RT reactions.
Didn't we have a map of C. elegans brain (and entire body) many years ago? I'm a little surprised they didn't do something like this with the nematode first given its relative simplicity.
Here's a Nature pub from late 2024.
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Came to the comments to see people criticizing Biden for this. Was not disappointed.