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To: potlatch


This is insane in so many ways

What benefits to they hope to achieve?

Looks like another scam for grant money funded by taxpayers

Silicone is bad

Let's use cow-human DNA instead





8 posted on 01/11/2007 10:55:39 PM PST by devolve ( ....shop_invest_and_hire_wisely)
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To: devolve

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9 posted on 01/11/2007 11:05:41 PM PST by zarf
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To: devolve
What benefits to they hope to achieve?

"During that two-week period, researchers would study the chemical signals that allow the adult DNA to be reprogrammed into an embryonic form. Some genes that are expressed in adult cells are turned off in the embryo, for example, and the teams want to work out how this switching works."

Let's use cow-human DNA instead

They aren't studying cow-human DNA. Cow DNA is in the mitochondria of the egg cell, and adult human DNA will be in the nucleus. I don't know enough to say if results will be valid, but they want to study the results of gene expression to reverse engineer adult DNA to a primitive, embryonic state.

11 posted on 01/11/2007 11:21:05 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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