How Octopuses Hacked Their Ribosome To Become Smart

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This was a cool read, if anyone wants incentive to read it, here is the key bit

  The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is a good example here, displaying levels of intelligence and capabilities far beyond those of other cephalopods and matching that of primates, despite no evolutionary link here. Exactly how octopuses developed this rather unique capability remained a mystery, though recent research by [Rishav Mitra] points at the rather unique ribosomes in these animals.

  Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.

  Ribosomes are the molecular machinery at the core of each cell that enable the synthesis of proteins. Due to their highly crucial role, they tend to remain evolutionary unchanged, which makes the big change observed in the octopus (i.e. order Octopoda) in the form of this H88 rRNA break quite remarkable.

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• SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  ZOMG! I’m gonna recompile my ribosomes with march=native and --funroll-loops

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• gedfromgont@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “Hacked”

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