You know, if I had never gotten into ROM hacking, I might have made a good genetic researcher…

> MIT World » : 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/