Genetic Rules rewritten: RNA can carry genetic information

A breakthrough research in mutant mice has proved that in addition to DNA, RNA too can carry information from parents to offsprings. This discovery may force the genetic rules to be rewritten and will certainly provide a base to more fascinating discoveries in coming years.

I wonder if we have discovered such a basic thing as late as year 2006, there might be a lot of more things which nature has been so efficiently hiding from us. We might never discover everything nature has to offer to us.

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