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Recently, the Evolution 2.0 contest has launched and will
continue until 2026. This competition asks the age-old question: how was DNA
created and how can laboratories recreate this process?
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) forms the building blocks needed
for life. Divided into four bases (adenine [A], thymine [T], cytosine [C], and
guanine [G]), the DNA molecules form 64 codon triplets with one of 20 amino
acids. These structures then join as proteins.
Competition entries will be judged by Harvard biologist
George Church and Oxford University’s Denis Noble. Perry Marshall, contest
organizer and founder of Natural Code, created the contest in hopes of inspiring
a discovery that could revolutionize research in biology and artificial
intelligence.
Through a further understanding of DNA, humanity could finally
being to gain insight on how consciousness is created. Furthermore, the
discovery would impact studies in artificial intelligence, allowing the potential
for evolving, naturally-occurring code.
Read more about this fascinating discovery at: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/5-million-prize-for-origin-of-genetic-code
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