{"id":26725,"date":"2016-06-09T21:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T04:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/physicists-confirm-theres-a-second-layer-of-information-hidden-in-our-dna"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:47","slug":"physicists-confirm-theres-a-second-layer-of-information-hidden-in-our-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/physicists-confirm-theres-a-second-layer-of-information-hidden-in-our-dna","title":{"rendered":"Physicists confirm there\u2019s a second layer of information hidden in our DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-confirm-theres-a-second-layer-of-information-hidden-in-our-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Theoretical physicists have confirmed that it\u2019s not just the information coded into our DNA that shapes who we are \u2014 it\u2019s also the way DNA folds itself that controls which genes are expressed inside our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s something biologists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v442\/n7104\/full\/nature04979.html\">have known for years<\/a>, and they\u2019ve even been able to figure out some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trithorax-group_proteins\">proteins responsible for folding up DNA<\/a>. But now a group of physicists have been able to demonstrate for the first time through simulations how this hidden information controls our evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s back up for a second here, because although it\u2019s not necessarily news to many scientists, this second level of DNA information might not be something you\u2019re familiar with.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-confirm-a-second-layer-of-information-hiding-in-dna\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-confirm-a-second-laye...ing-in-dna<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical physicists have confirmed that it\u2019s not just the information coded into our DNA that shapes who we are \u2014 it\u2019s also the way DNA folds itself that controls which genes are expressed inside our bodies. That\u2019s something biologists have known for years, and they\u2019ve even been able to figure out some of the proteins [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26725"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67257,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26725\/revisions\/67257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}