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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Researchers map 50,000 of DNA's mysterious 'knots' in the
 human genome
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 22:41:12 +1000
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On 31/08/2024 3:16 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Sat, 31 Aug 2024 04:04:48 GMT) it happened Jan Panteltje
> <alien@comet.invalid> wrote in <vau4p1$1tkl2$1@solani.org>:
> 
>> Researchers map 50,000 of DNA's mysterious 'knots' in the human genome
>> Source:
>> Garvan Institute of Medical Research
>> Summary:
>> Innovative study of DNA's hidden structures may open up new approaches for treatment and diagnosis of diseases, including
>> cancer.
> 
> Sorry, forgot the link:
>   https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240829132437.htm

The Garvan Institute is a couple of blocks away from where I live.

The structures they are are talking about aren't any kind of knot, but a 
four-strand stretch of DNA held together by cytosine-to-cytosine bonds - 
there's no interesting topology involved.

Medical education isn't big on pure math skills. I'll talk to my 
oncologist friend about it - he and I were undergraduates in the same 
residential college, and our wives shared a bathroom in their 
residential college, so we go back a long way.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney