Day: July 24, 2011

Science catches up with fiction

Science catches up with fiction

I was just reading an article in the June 25th 2011 New Scientist (Number 2818) called The Evolution Machine when I noticed that the engineers were working to replace the STOP codons in the DNA sequence.

In Dragonsblood, I’d hypothetized that part of the cure for the dragon sickness involved replacing the START codon for the dragon’s triple-helixed Pernese Nucleic Acid (PNA).

Nice to see some things come out right. Now, if only someone who get the whole flying-car, FTL starship thing sorted out, we’d be … well, flying!