Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)

Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by fktnktofk on Monday January 25, 2021 @07:52PM (#25911068)

I get your point and I agree, the DNA runs on hardware, which is why you can't take cat DNA and put it in a salamander cell and expect to get a cat. The resulting cell will just die since the hardware is not compatible with the DNA.

My point was that there is only so much information capacity in the cell if you exclude DNA, surely much less than needed to store electrical fields patterns for a whole embryo.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by FartyMcFarter on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:35PM (#25911342)

A cell has a lot of atoms, which may store a lot of information?

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by Robotbeat on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:49PM (#25911460)

But not error corrected like DNA.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by fktnktofk on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:09PM (#25911607)

You would see some sort of patterns there, and we don't see such a thing.

Like the difference between a silicon microchip and just a silicon block. Same stuff, bit the microchip one has intricate patterns.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by sitkack on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:47PM (#25912668)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatara

https://asunow.asu.edu/20200806-dragon-dna-sequencing-genome...

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-dinosaur-relative-genome-linke...

I really recommend Anton's segment on the Tuatara, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWywZyzmBDE MindBlown!

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by intricatedetail on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:43PM (#25911413)

Can single atom store more information than a bit?

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by acomjean on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:13PM (#25912016)

DNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins.

Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine

They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by morlockabove on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:17PM (#25911661)

Each electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah.

More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to describe the state of that system, so yeah.

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