Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Dark DNA?

“A large proportion of Dark DNA consists of gene “switches.” Over four million gene switches in the non-coding DNA constitute an almost inconceivably intricate information writing system, one that turns genes on and off and provides a mechanism to rewrite DNA’s coded protein structure (Kolata 2012 cited by Lipton in The Biology of Belief).”

Could that interfacing mechanism of “Dark DNA” be melanin; eumelanin in the body and neuromelanin in the brain? Let’s find out.

In Chapter 2, “Neuromelanin: What Is Its Importance in Neural Tissue?” and within the scientific masterpiece, Why Darkness Matters, Dr. Ann Brown writes, “[m]elanin is precipitated as … [B]lack materials through the universe… [and exists] in the biosphere as eumelanin, pheomelanin, and allomelanin; in the lithosphere as minerals, graphites, and fullerenes; in the atmosphere as pollutants and smoke; in the hydrosphere[;] seas, lakes, and rivers; and in the cosmos as fullerenes and cosmids (Nicolaus, 1964). Melanin is an amorphous semiconductor because it is always in motion, always changing as a result of its central chemical core by adjusting to various energy levels. Because of this motion and by virtue of low resistance to the flow of electrons (Strezelecka, 1982; Riley, 1997; Bynum, 1999), melanin[] display[s] consistent semiconductor properties. Therefore, melanin serves as a switch for the flow of electrons to higher or lower levels of energy. The low frequency of charge transfer currency gives melanin the ability to bind with strong affinity to drugs and metals, which ultimately damages neural tissue and overall functions via cell death (Swart, 1992; Barnes, 1999). The presence of melanin in all living organisms has been fully documented and is suggestive of its involvement in many critical functions (perhaps protective) required by all cells to function and maintain life (Lindquist, 1987).”