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Scientists crack genetic secrets of human egg
Michigan State University ^
| 05 September 2006
| Staff (press release)
Posted on 09/06/2006 10:20:53 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Everybody be nice.
To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:22:12 AM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Where are the anachronistic fossils?)
To: PatrickHenry
Maybe MSU can use this to make another Charles Rogers/sarc
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:23:23 AM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
To: PatrickHenry
I love eggs,
From my head down to my legs...........
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:24:27 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: Red Badger
I hope when they cracked they didn't get any shell in the whites.
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:31:25 AM PDT
by
boomop1
(there you go again)
To: PatrickHenry
"Everybody be nice."
Dang...
To: PatrickHenry
Hmm. Reply was zapped. Try again.
The brain of the cell is in the cell wall. The DNA/RNA/genes are for reference only. This is how the fertilized egg suddenly turns into kevlar armored cell as soon as the first sperm touches it: the cell wall does the afferent and efferent thinking.
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:33:47 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: boomop1
Ohhh, I hate that when it happens.........Biting down on a piece of shell is like fingernails on a chalkboard with me!.......
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:34:06 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: PatrickHenry
Wow - you hit evolution and embryonic (not really) stem cells all in one post!
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:39:09 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: PatrickHenry
Great stuff. What's interesting about mammalian oocytes and then fertilized eggs is that these sort of analyses turn up a failr amount of sequences that are species specific -- ie they don't have homologs in other species. This includes non-homologous genes even between rat and mouse, for example. Usually non-conserved sequences between mouse and human will have a rat homolog. But in these cells related to reproduction there are sequences simply not found in any other species.
Also, a large number of non-gene sequences (eg transcripts of repeat elements) are seen.
There are a lot of mysteries and the title of this is a misnomer. Biology is more mysterious than ever now because we know so much more which tells us so much we don't know.
A few years ago we wouldn't have known enough to know what we don't know.
And as far as this: Everybody be nice.
That always seems like an actual challenge or invitation to trade insults.
It's smarmy and rude.
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:39:10 AM PDT
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: PatrickHenry
The human eggs ability to transform into a new life, or into new cells that may someday save lives, is well documented.What is well documented are untested claims that embryonic stem cells may provide new therapies for various diseases.
The identification opens the way to understanding these genes functions, which may lead to solving problems from infertility to degenerative diseases.
The key word here again is may. But nobody knows for sure.
To: PatrickHenry
Combined with technology, the unfertilized egg might be coaxed to produce other specific cells, including stem cells This is great news!
To: PatrickHenry
The creator said he made them male and female according to their kind, and he made humans in his image...if so, why hermaphrodites? That's a question biblical theologians can't answer except "it's a mystery."
Glad evil scientists are actually studying and determining what makes things tick.
JMO
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posted on
09/06/2006 10:44:10 AM PDT
by
sully777
(You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
To: AdmSmith; AnalogReigns; caryatid; CobaltBlue; concentric circles; Domestic Church; Emmalein; ...
To: tallhappy
That always seems like an actual challenge or invitation to trade insults. In the eye of the beholder.
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posted on
09/06/2006 11:01:35 AM PDT
by
js1138
(Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
To: PatrickHenry
Add me to your science ping list please PH?
Thanks mightily :)
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posted on
09/06/2006 11:03:13 AM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(Middle East Interactive Map: http://interneticsonline.com/MEMap.html)
To: PatrickHenry
What? No Yolks!
To: Young Werther
This is nothing to yolk about!
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posted on
09/06/2006 11:21:22 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(Just opened a new seafood restaurant in Great Britain, called "Squid Pro Quid")
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
09/06/2006 11:22:20 AM PDT
by
AdmSmith
To: tallhappy
Biology is more mysterious than ever now because we know so much more which tells us so much we don't know.
Dang, that has got to be the quote of the day. I couldn't have said it better myself. The most fascinating thing to me about ALL fields of science, is the consistent revelation that the more we learn, the more we realize how much we oversimplified the things we didn't know before. Every time a question gets answered, it reveals several more complex questions that could not have even been conceived prior to the earlier revelation.
Science rocks.
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posted on
09/06/2006 11:36:49 AM PDT
by
Sopater
(Creatio Ex Nihilo)
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