Re: OT: Researchers map 50,000 of DNA's mysterious 'knots' in the human genome

On 31/08/2024 3:16 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:04:48 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje
<alien@comet.invalid> wrote in <vau4p1$1tkl2$1@solani.org>:
 

Researchers map 50,000 of DNA's mysterious 'knots' in the human genome
Source:
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Summary:
Innovative study of DNA's hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including
cancer.

 Sorry, forgot the link:
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240829132437.htm

The Garvan Institute is a couple of blocks away from where I live.
The structures they are are talking about aren't any kind of knot, but a four-strand stretch of DNA held together by cytosine-to-cytosine bonds - there's no interesting topology involved.
Medical education isn't big on pure math skills. I'll talk to my oncologist friend about it - he and I were undergraduates in the same residential college, and our wives shared a bathroom in their residential college, so we go back a long way.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney