fractals in the human gene

[uncloned]

I found this referenced on slashdot - here are the original articles.

Basically the human dna packs used and unused genes into two areas, and the used genes are efficiently packed into a fractal globule that exposes the needed genes in an accessible way - even ones far away from each other in the dna strand.



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008142957.htm



http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/3d-genome.html

[Sam_Zen]

Without reading it, it doesn't surprise me.
Nature uses fractals a lot, because it's a very efficient and condensed way to describe things or processes.
A description which can be read from different angles or perspectives without disturbing the properties.
There's also a, quite unknown, image compression format based on fractals.

I'm fond of fractals. Here is a bitmap result :



Fractals already are used already for quite some time to compose sound structures as well.