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Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by DSingularity on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:34AM (#26476460)
How do we guarantee that? Is there a biological equivalent of a checksum?
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Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by maxerickson on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:41AM (#26476545)
You have trillions of mitochondria. Do you think there is no error correction present?

(The actual estimate is 10 million billion...)

Edit following my other edit: each cell has something like 10 million ribosomes.

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Re:The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us about mR... by serf on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @06:30PM (#26484061)
NMD does similar work, but not in a checksum-like way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense-mediated_decay

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