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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by TaupeRanger on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:18PM (#25912485)
DNA is certainly necessary and integral, but not at all sufficient for a full scientific understanding. Just like quantum mechanics is to rocket science. The heavy focus on genetics has hindered our understanding until very recently IMO.
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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by koeng on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:05AM (#25912767)
> hindered our understanding until very recently IMO

Any specific examples of how it hindered our understanding? Like maybe some grants or something? Because as a synthetic biologist, I've never seen a heavy emphasis on genetics take away from other causes of cellular dynamics - in fact, exactly the opposite, because genetic engineering has allowed tinkering of those cellular dynamics (for example, cardio tissue surface physics).

I don't know of any serious biologist that (even historically) disregarded the importance of other physical factors in favor of DNA, but I would love to know compelling counter examples.

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Re:Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamande... by abandonliberty on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:22AM (#25913389)
Rather than "small part of the picture", you would get less disagreement with something like "beginning of the story."

I doubt many people would agree that computer hardware is a small part of the picture of modern computation.

They're the foundations that everything else is built on, and with.

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