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Sep. 13th, 2007
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This looks like a good day for SCIENCE!
It took her and her team five years of research, but she found the common genetic sequences that differentiate novas from baselines in introns. Testing of "30 researchers at our lab" found only one with those intron sequences, and "[h]er excitement over the find" is believed to have triggered her eruption a few days later. Finally, a double-blind test with six novas and 4,999,994 baselines found that "[a]ll six of the Homo sapiens novus samples showed the DNA sequencing, while none of the Homo sapiens samples did."
She also discourses on the mechanisms of eruption and node development, to the extent they're understood, and with acknowledgement of the bits that aren't understood (such as "[t]he mechanism by which the Mazarin-Rashoud node changes or expands after its initial genesis").
Her conclusion notes that the answers have brought extra questions with them, such as "why novas have continued to appear with greater frequency" for so long after the Galatea explosion. She ends on a "purely speculative note" re: the triggering mechanism that has led to these introns expressing now: "it could be a case of spot evolution, or perhaps even outside source influence."
September 13
[Aberrant] Dr. Sarah Lewis, director of the Brooks L. Miller Center for Biosciences Research at Georgia Tech, presents a paper on "The Genetic Basic of Homo sapiens novus" (funded by the Triton Foundation).
It took her and her team five years of research, but she found the common genetic sequences that differentiate novas from baselines in introns. Testing of "30 researchers at our lab" found only one with those intron sequences, and "[h]er excitement over the find" is believed to have triggered her eruption a few days later. Finally, a double-blind test with six novas and 4,999,994 baselines found that "[a]ll six of the Homo sapiens novus samples showed the DNA sequencing, while none of the Homo sapiens samples did."
She also discourses on the mechanisms of eruption and node development, to the extent they're understood, and with acknowledgement of the bits that aren't understood (such as "[t]he mechanism by which the Mazarin-Rashoud node changes or expands after its initial genesis").
Her conclusion notes that the answers have brought extra questions with them, such as "why novas have continued to appear with greater frequency" for so long after the Galatea explosion. She ends on a "purely speculative note" re: the triggering mechanism that has led to these introns expressing now: "it could be a case of spot evolution, or perhaps even outside source influence."
