You know, if I had never gotten into ROM hacking, I might have made a good genetic researcher…
> MIT World ยป : DNA Mutation, Repair and the Environment
> Samson wants to figure out how to protect cells against
> carcinogenic effects in the environment, and whether a
> tumor cell will be susceptible to treatment. She has been
> painstakingly studying the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast
> organism, trying to identify all the factors that determine
> whether or not DNA damaging agents kill or mutate cells.
> She interrogated each of this organism’s 5,800 genes,
> “asking one by one, which of you is making a product that’s
> important to helping a cell recover from damage.” In what
> was a “huge surprise,” Samson learned that there are more
> than 2,000 gene products involved in helping a yeast cell
> repair itself, “from areas of the cell never suspected
> before for being important” in this way.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/387/
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