The alternative genome

The recent developments in molecular biology which make it possible for a single gene to specify two or more distinct proteins are discussed. This is possible through a mechanism called alternative splicing, which edits the information stored in the genes of complex organisms in different ways. Different methods are developed by Randolph Wall, Tom Maniatis and a few other molecular biologists to develop a molecular machinery that performs the cutting of introns and pasting together of exons. The novel proteins created by the splicing methods can help to make humans.