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3rd Chromosome Deciphered
veeoh writes: "Another chapter in the human book of life has been published.
Scientists working as part of the Human Genome Project(including some from the Wellcome Trust) have deciphered the complete genetic instructions of a third chromosome, one of the 24 bundles of DNA that carry our genetic material.
The BBC has an
article about the discovery"
Maybe they can cure my muscle deficincy now?
46 and 2 are just ahead of me...
RIP Douglas Adams.
TAAGAGCCCTCTTCTCGAGACTAGATCAATTTAACCGAATATGGT
ATTTAACCGAATATGGTAYBABTUATTTAACCGAATATGGTCCGC
CCGAGAGTTCATTTAACCGAATATGGTAGTTCATTAGTTCATTCC
CCGGAGATTTACAGTTCATTGTTCATTTAACCGAATTAGTTTTAG
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Sapere Aude - Homer
stfu
YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT!!!
YOU HAVE ALMOST no control ON WHETHER YOU GET DIABETES!!!
OBESITY IS usually A DEFECT IN THE ABILITY OF ONE'S BODY TO digest FOOD!!!
excema is not PURELY due to DIRTY SKIN!!!
'nuff said
Wouldn't this be a violation of DMCA?
*ahem* diabetes is caused by your body developing 'tolerances' to things that break down sugars caused by eating too much sugars.
Genetics can help determine where that tolerance lies, but in the end, someone that doesn't have sugars in great quantity can't get 98% of the diabetes cases in the world.
a) What if we are God? What if God is only the collective unconcious of all mankind?
Then that would be God. Your point?
b) Chaos theory implies that ANYTHING on earth affects the Earth. You know, the butterfly flapping its wings thing.
If I take a shit in Morocco does it effect the price of tea in China?
c) We have no technology to "wipe out" the Earth. We could very easily wipe ourselves off the earth but the very large mass that is Earth will keep on ticking (and probably heal very nicely without us).
What about Win Xp? That's pretty devastating!
Ah, but the Y is MUCH MUCH shorter than the X. Men have less DNA than women, and are hence inferior
And this is where the animal rights activists do not get it...many have suggested that science has progressed to the point where test tube or computer models suffice, and animals do not need to be used. This completely ignores the fact that computers have not yet progressed to the state where we can model a single protein, and test tubes are not complete living systems.
Though I'll grant that we don't need to pump rabbits full of mascara just to see HOW MUCH is toxic...
What a stinky way to crack encryption. But, I suppose someone has to do the dirty jobs.
OffTopic: In Czech, "shit" is "hovono" (phonetically), and "to suck" is "tzUtzit" [hard U]. The machine that cleans out septic tanks, therefore, is colloquialy called a "hovono-tzUtz".
You could've hired me.
Humans rule! Dolphins can suck it.
After they spend a ton of money (probably it'll be a ton in $100 bills) what's next? I've seen shows about a superior race... where they make a human how they want it. It would be very tall, strong, cute, smart, etc etc. But, what's the point? Will being turned into a race within a race with a superior race included also be good? Anyway, if this knowledge is used in the right way, what is there to do?