{"id":135436,"date":"2022-02-10T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-last-century-revealed-our-dnas-secrets-and-lingering-mysteries"},"modified":"2022-02-10T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:22:19","slug":"the-last-century-revealed-our-dnas-secrets-and-lingering-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/the-last-century-revealed-our-dnas-secrets-and-lingering-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"The last century revealed our DNA\u2019s secrets and lingering mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-last-century-revealed-our-dnas-secrets-and-lingering-mysteries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Human Genome Project received a lot of media attention from scientific journals and the mainstream press.<\/p>\n<p>Left to right: <em>Time<\/em> July 3, 2000; <em>Science<\/em> February 16, 2001; <em>Nature<\/em> February 15, 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Green:<\/strong> Or sloppy transcription, that our enzymes are just going off and making a bunch of RNA because they don\u2019t know how to control themselves. And it\u2019s just garbage. But, no. And I like your point about 20 years ago, we couldn\u2019t imagine. I would propose that 20 years from now, we might look back at this conversation and say, \u2018Oh, my goodness, think about all these other ways that the genome functions.\u2019 There\u2019s no reason to think we have our hands around it all in terms of all the biological complexity of DNA; I\u2019m quite sure we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Human Genome Project received a lot of media attention from scientific journals and the mainstream press. Left to right: Time July 3, 2000; Science February 16, 2001; Nature February 15, 2001. Green: Or sloppy transcription, that our enzymes are just going off and making a bunch of RNA because they don\u2019t know how to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}