Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Creation Moment 3/17/2021 - Gene "Control" System [i-motif]

 .....for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works......
Psalm 139:14

"Most people know of the double helix (twisted ladder) structure of DNA, discovered in 1953. Scientists in the 1990s found another
structure in the test-tube, called an ‘i-motif’. Now scientists have shown that this structure exists inside human cells. “The i-motif is a four-stranded ‘knot’ of DNA”, explained Marcel Dinger, one of the scientists involved. 
 
These structures 
---appear more frequently when cells are very active, such as during cell division. 
---The structures also seem to relate to the control of genes, occurring in the regions of the DNA that determine if a gene is to be ‘read’ by the cell.

All this adds yet another ‘twist’ to the complexity of DNA and underlines the ever-growing difficulty of explaining the origins of cells just by physics and chemistry." CMI