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diff --git a/tex/context/sample/carey.tex b/tex/context/sample/carey.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..81dda1c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/carey.tex @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +We humans, more than any other species, edit our ncRNA molecules to a remarkable +degree. Not even other primates carry out this reaction as well as we do. We also +edit particularly extensively in the brain. This makes editing of ncRNA an +attractive candidate process to explain why we are mentally so much more +sophisticated than our primate relatives, even though we share so much of our DNA +template in common. + +In some ways, this is the beauty of ncRNAs. They create a relatively safe method +for organisms to use to alter various aspects if cellular regulation. Evolution +has probably favoured this mechanism because it is simply too risky to try to +improve function by changing proteins. Proteins, you see, are the Mary Poppins of +the cell. They are \quote {practically perfect in every way}. |