> There are people who will tell you that a cell is just the way that ribosomes make more ribosomes, and I’m not in a position to say that they’re wrong. It’s for sure that these protein-synthesizing factories are extremely ancient, extremely well-optimized, and they’re constantly at work in every living cell reading off sequences from messenger RNA molecules and extruding the corresponding protein sequences.
I recognize that our bodies are biomechanics in action. I’ve read this multiple times over the years. But there’s something fresh (to me) in the way Dr. Lowe describes them as (paraphrasing): “ancient technology, in use, today”.
It’s both a comfort and a curse as I think about it from this perspective.
Finding a cogent explanation for yet another category of "junk-DNA"/non-coding region is quite encouraging. Yes, things are turning out to be more complicated than we thought, but they are also more comprehensible than we feared, at least once we figure out the right way to look at things.
I recognize that our bodies are biomechanics in action. I’ve read this multiple times over the years. But there’s something fresh (to me) in the way Dr. Lowe describes them as (paraphrasing): “ancient technology, in use, today”.
It’s both a comfort and a curse as I think about it from this perspective.