New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code

Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by stcredzero on Sunday January 29, 2017 @04:04PM (#13516639)

We have no idea what happens in our own code, code that we copy from place to place ourselves, written in languages we designed and running on machines we designed, and there's nothing like mutation and self-replication with this stuff, for the most part.

Documented: Computer viruses mutating in the wild by two different viruses accidentally copying themselves into overlapping regions of memory.

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by PhasmaFelis on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:56PM (#13518514)

Interesting. When has that happened? It seems awfully unlikely to create "viable offspring" that way, but I suppose most biological mutations are neutral or negative as well...

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by mrkgnao on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:47AM (#13520342)

I'd love a reference! This sounds very interesting.

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Re:New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-let... by RugnirViking on Monday January 30, 2017 @10:00AM (#13521657)

I'd love to read more about this, it sounds fascinating.

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