"JunkDNA" (98.7% of DNA in human) is not "Junk" - requiring a generalization of the "Gene concept". On http://www.junkdna.com website news items are posted (some of them reproduced here from http://www.junkdna.com/new_citations.html ) - to be discussed. My "two cents" is FractoGene (see similar website and upcoming book), a geometrization that has received now experimental support for its first prediction.

Monday, May 16, 2005

Protein-based Nanotechnology - examples

See full article at http://www.usa-siliconvalley.com/new_citations.html

Date: 2005-01-19 Rockville, MD

Scientists have deciphered the genome sequence of a microbe that can be used to clean up pollution by chlorinated solvents a major category of groundwater contaminants that are often left as byproducts of dry cleaning or industrial production ...

... TIGR has now deciphered the genome sequences of numerous microbes that have potential for use in bioremediation.

* Geobacter sulfurreducens, which can help mop up uranium pollution and produce energy in the process.
* Desulfovibrio vulgaris, which can help remediate metallic pollutants such as uranium and chromium.
* Shewanella oneidensis, which can remove metals such as chromium and uranium from water.
* Pseudomonas putida, a soil bacterium that breaks down organic pollutants.
* Deinococcus radiodurans, a radiation-resistant bacterium that can be used to help bioremediate radionucleotides at radioactive waste sites.
* Caulobacter crescentus, which could be used for bioremediation in low-nutrient aquatic environments

posted by Dr. Andras J. Pellionisz at 9:13 AM

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Blogger Dr. Andras J. Pellionisz said...

Protein-Based NanoTechnology? Craig Venter has envisoned for some time a "farm" of artificial protein-based microbes producing cheap Hydrogene using the Sun's energy, for a H2-based economy that could truly revolutionize both our way of life and our environment. To some extent, such is not "sci-fi", but is already happening, see the newsclip below from yesterday. However, the organisms below are natural microbes. As known to Nanotechnologists of artificial proteins, information of "genes" alone is just not sufficient to "assemble" organisms; the so-called "junk DNA" ("regulatory DNA") information is inevitable. Thus, e.g. for a H2-based economy Nanotechnologists must have engineering-tools such as FractoGene available for a blueprint of how a functioning full genome can be built. Comment on the 20th of January, 2005 by A. Pellionisz

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