The DNA Mystery: Scientists Stumped By "Telepathic" Abilities

DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet. Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the "amazing" ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA's chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible. Even so, research published in ACS' Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals. Read more at link above.

In a discovery that may pave the way for possible Star Trek-like travel in the future, a group of physicists have developed a method to teleport atoms. Physicists Murray Olsen says the method is very much like the Star Trek characters' favorite way to get back on the Enterprise. The atoms are first cooled to almost absolute zero, or -273C. At a billionth of a degree above this temperature, a quirk of physics makes all the atoms start behaving in the same way. Then the scientists zap them with two lasers. “If you cool these atoms down enough ... in a condensate, they all enter the same quantum state,” Dr Olsen said. “When a few thousand atoms are overlapping (and you hit them with the laser beams)… they basically disappear.“We can use an optic fiber (to transport the signal at the speed of light) into a second condensate, which could be in another room, or another building, or another state. “We’ve got the coldest thing in the universe and the fastest speed in the universe.”

'Telepathic' Genes Recognize Similarities In Each Other
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124103151.htm
ScienceDaily (Jan. 24, 2008) — Genes have the ability to recognise similarities in each other from a distance, without any proteins or other biological molecules aiding the process, according to new research. This discovery could explain how similar genes find each other and group together in order to perform key processes involved in the evolution of species.