Betül Kaçar

That's a very interesting and very fascinating area of study now.

And probably we will hear more about that in the decades to come.

But if you want to go from the broad to specific, you need to understand the rules of selection.

And that is going to come from understanding biology, yes.

Yeah, that was the driving question.

We meddled with the part where you shouldn't be messing up with translation.

You shouldn't.

As I said, there are many ways to break it and all life needs it.

It's, yeah, because that's how kids learn, right?

So you have to break something and then see how it will, then you do it over and over again to see if it will fix itself in the same ways.

So it's our, I don't know, it's the most fundamental properties of ourselves as human beings.

So if we shouldn't break translation, then we should try to break it to see how it will repair.

I broke elongation.

So we have four steps of the translations, initiate, elongate.

So you elongate the chain of the information chain that you're now creating, the peptide chain, or let's say broadly polymer chain.

And there's a termination step and there's the recycling.

So all of these steps are carried out by proteins that are also named after these steps.

Initiation is the initiation factor protein, elongation is the elongator protein.

We broke elongation.

So the cell, the starting codon could still arrive to where it's supposed to go, but the following information couldn't get carried out because we replaced elongation with its own ancestral version.