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n+1 wrote: ↑15/03/2024 11:35 Denis Noble o tome zašto Darvin ne bi bio neodarvinist, zašto je CRISPR poput popravljanja sata čiji mehanizam ne razumijemo, i zašto je genom manje poput programskog koda, a više poput koncerta.

But the other reason why the focus has been so relentlessly genetic is sociological. The Human Genome Project was predicated on this picture, and so there were vested interests in preserving it. It might have been perceived as embarrassing to say “Well we thought things worked this way, but it turns out that they don’t!” Which is a shame, because there is absolutely no shame in that – it is simply how science works, right? But so many promises were made, about how the HGP was going to revolutionize medicine and lead to all these new cures and transform our understanding of human biology, that it became hard to backtrack. What has happened instead is that parts of the biology community have said, “Oh, well it seems actually we need all this other data too”, and so we have all these expensive further -omes beyond the genome – the proteome, metabolome, transcriptome, connectome. Each of them undoubtedly generates lots of useful information, but they tend to become exercises in mere data collection, lacking in any hypotheses to guide them and with a blind hope that somehow understanding will fall out from it all, which it rarely if ever does in science. Yet we go on collecting data because it is what we know how to do.

At root, part of the problem is that the gene eclipsed the cell – that biology’s centre of gravity became genetics rather than developmental biology. Yet the cell is the proper starting place to understand life, as it is the smallest thing that is actually alive. I point out in the book that genes have ended up being ascribed a spurious agency they don’t possess, because the gene-centred view has nowhere else to put it. And this neglect of developmental biology has been lamented by developmental biologists since Waddington. Happily, there are now some influential voices calling for the cell to be reinstated at the centre of biology.

TAFKAP wrote: ↑19/03/2024 06:05 Mislim, nemo da se ljutiš

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n+1 wrote: ↑19/03/2024 06:35

TAFKAP wrote: ↑19/03/2024 06:05 Mislim, nemo da se ljutiš

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Nisam namjenu ove teme zamislio striktno kao mjesto gdje ćemo dijeliti videe iz oblasti nauke, nego i filozofije, kulture, religije, politike, itd. Pa u tom smislu odstupa od namjene tvoje teme. S razlogom sam je stavio na podforum Umjetnost i kultura, a ne Nauka i edukacija.

Ali suštinski je nebitno, jer ni moju ni tvoju temu niko ne jebe.