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ROME Therapeutics, a biotechnology company harnessing the power of the dark genome to develop breakthrough medicines for serious diseases, today announced a landmark publication in Nature revealing the first high-resolution structure of the LINE-1...
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine: There's a New Octopus Sheriff in Town by Priya Sridhar
If human and octopus DNA has the same 'jumping genes,' then it would seem chance evolution of the same characteristic can happen with different species.
Genetic analysis of octopuses identified DNA sequences in their brains called transposons, which may help regulate learning.
It is already established that octopuses are intelligent beings, even more so than other invertebrate species. A new discovery uncovered as to why this is so - their brain shares similarity with that of humans.