IMAGINE handing a child a recipe book and telling them it contains every instruction needed to bake any cake in the world.
Then one day, a scientist walks in and says, “We have just found a page that was never supposed to exist.” That is exactly how the biology world is feeling right now.
For decades, students across Malaysia and around the world have been taught one of science’s most fundamental principles: the central dogma of molecular biology.
Put simply, life follows a one-way recipe: DNA writes the instructions, RNA carries them to the kitchen and proteins are the finished dish. This idea has formed the foundation of modern biology, medicine and cancer research for generations.
