( i see you split some of my posts… sure, i apologize for the mess. )
How well known are the integration preferences of the ERVs ? In my other posts i have mentioned, that i am an engineer, so basically, i am a layman, so please be patient with me…
I have noticed, that today’s science has a lot of troubles…
“This is officially becoming a trend: Springer is pulling another 64 articles from 10 journals after finding evidence of faked peer reviews, bringing the total number of retractions from the phenomenon north of 230.”
you go to google, and you get tons of similar articles… to be honest, i am even not surprised… people cheat…even scientists… moreover, scientists are expected to deliver results… in your jargon: “there are very strong selection pressures”
However, to learn, that it becomes a trend, is something, which is very disturbing…
Don’t get me wrong, i am not saying that this is the case with ERVs, however, how confident you guys are about these insertion preferences? How confident you are, that you are able to mimic the right conditions for your experiments? Is it even possible to mimic the right conditions?
the other day i have noticed:
CRISPR genome editing… a big thing, a revolution … and then i read “DNA Damage from CRISPR Has Been ‘Seriously Underestimated’”.
Anyways, ERVs, 200,000 insertions? Some other guy on this forum pointed out, that the insertion rate dropped 40-fold … i have noticed one thing… the most interesting biology stuff always happens in the deep past and then never again… moreover, you guys still don’t know where viruses come from…