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Mouse Genetic Code Published
linuxwrangler writes "Scientists in six countries have published a nearly-complete genetic code of the mouse. Results show striking similarities between human and mouse DNA and scientists are now working on side-beside mapping of the two genomes."
Results show striking similarities between human and mouse DNA and scientists are now working on side-beside mapping of the two genomes
And the project is called "Of Mice and Men", right?
GMD
watch this
God has filed suit against the scientists who have "decoded" the DNA of a mouse, citing the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions.
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Just looking at a mouse shows striking similarities to a human being. Skeleton with a backbone, pelvis and skull. Two eyes. Brain, nervous system, heart, lungs. A nose with two holes above a mouth, between two eyes. Et cetera.
;)
It's not that astounding that similarities in the genetic code should be found, or even striking ones.
Now they can be born with exceptional hearing!
They could be used for surveilance in this age of fear and vigilance. Might work better than the cat with built in microphone+transmitter that had it's first test cut tragicly short.
Ali
Ph33r m3!!!
maybe that's why I like cheese so much.
but what could possibly be more important is noncoding RNA, or microRNA. I read a good article about it at Science News.
Another useful link is the project site for the program RNAGENiE.
Just thought many people would find that interesting.
Cool. So does this mean mice are now open source!? ;)
Boo Hiss!!! baaaaad joke!
Snoozer.
Is this "shared-source" (MS-lingo) type "open source" (note lowercase) hardware or is it truly open-source hardware?
Further: If this is under the GPL (although I doubt it is -- still, it's a good question for the future) and I modify the source organically (through breeding), am I required to release the resulting code? HOW? I don't HAVE the resulting code! (Unless I pay a lot of money to have scientists in six countries sequence it for me...)
Anyway, yeah.
Or patent or trademark or whatever the heck Mickey is at this point. The Sonny Bono Act will only carry them so far. (Don't blame him for what Disney forces him to lobby for.)
Genetically engineered mice can be patented, so bioengineered or cloned progeny of Mickey may be attractive to Disney Genetics and Licensing, Inc. There is some suspicion Mickey himself is engineered, as he has not aged in over 60 years.
Set Mickey free!
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... Or maybe there just isnt that many differences in the structure and chemestry between humans and mice....
Believe what you want,
but when it comes to scientific discussion about evolution, your two cents about creationism don't add anything. Believing that things were designed by God doesnt give you any power of prediction. That is what Science is all about. No one really cares if electrons actually spin, but describing them that way allows you to predict what they will do.
Making claims about creationism when topics of evolution come up just adds noise, and flames. I dont know about anyone else, but I would like it if you would resist the erge to attempt to convert people.
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
It's open source and then some. You'll be able to pick it up from the NIH and a number of other places, on government tabs no less.
Good luck compiling it though.
By the way, here's a more official press release.
-- "Sucks to your ass-mar"
Nature is providing most or all of the 'mouse edition' of their journal freely on their website, www.nature.com
Some of the editorials read easily, but are a bit more meaty than little newsbites.
I'm surprised this story didn't make the main page - do people not realize how important this data is? Having a mammalian genome available for comparative analyses with the human genome is a major landmark. The articles I've seen mostly talk about locating genes, but its locating other things - regulatory regions, non-coding RNA genes, and other functional non-protein-coding DNA - that's more difficult, but now possible, and, IMNSHO, much more exciting. Then again, I'm rather biased.
Infant rat heads grafted onto adults' thighs
I know what I want for xmas.
This would be really cool if it wasn't so fucking disturbing.
Side by side mapping for the most recent build of the mouse genome (alignment dated in August 2002) is finished. It's only the question of analysis that's now important. The article in Nature (I'm one of the co-authors) explores a variety of different methods for explaining the differences between the human and the mouse genomes, and (hopefully) for eventually explaining (or at least predicting) the process of evolution at the genetic level. It's hard to explain how massive this project was...a lot of the information was spun of into papers in other journals simply because Nature couldn't fit it all.