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DSingularity on March 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The EMA Covid-19 data leak, and what it tells us a...

How do we guarantee that? Is there a biological equivalent of a checksum?

maxerickson on March 16, 2021 | [–]

You have trillions of mitochondria. Do you think there is no error correction present?

(The actual estimate is 10 million billion...)

Edit following my other edit: each cell has something like 10 million ribosomes.

serf on March 16, 2021 | [–]

NMD does similar work, but not in a checksum-like way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense-mediated_decay

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