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Chimera Twins Story
skelley writes "Below is an audio link on this morning's story on NPR about Chimera twins, or people with two sets of DNA.
It turns out that every once in a while a set of fraternal twin eggs merge into one embryo. The resulting person has two sets of DNA.
The story says it is possible for a Chimera to have different sets of DNA in different body parts. This can cause complication for body identification, DNA typing for organ transplants, crime investigation, etc.
Researchers have no idea how common this is, but suppose that it is a reasonable percentage of all fraternal twin pregnancies, which would mean millions worldwide.
No text version. NPR often doesn't publish one.
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so now when your liver commits a crime, it can be convicted seperately?
I would like to be able to decide which of the two sets of DNA are set as 'active' at a given time. That would be nice for things like murdering my wife and whoever she is sleeping with outside of our house, and then getting away with the crime.
If the DNA don't fit.. well.. uhh.. ahh shit.
"My evil twin brother did it. Honest."
I read the headline and thought... that must be a video game title. I think it's time for sleep.
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Crudely Drawn Games
This is perfect for /. It's impossible to RTFA
Laugh while you can, monkey-boy!
No text version. NPR often doesn't publish one.
Oh ho ho, methinks they'll change their mind very shortly.
One of the X chromosomes is mostly disabled a little bit past conception (after the cells have divided a good amount though). However, which one is disabled is random at this time, which means different regions of the body derived from the original cell will have different X chromosomes disabled (into what's called a Barr body). This is all very screwy which is why females are very screwy.
-Libertarian secular transhumanist
And I thought images were bad when getting /.ed...
O.J. is INNOCENT! It was my.... uhh.... other DNA...
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You know the people I'm talking about, the ones whose bodies are somehow demented and just don't seem to fit together. Torso too big for the legs,legs too long for the torso, head too big, and so on.
Probably not, but there's got to be an explanation for this phenomena.
ONE PIECE AT A TIME
Written by W. Kemp
Recorded by Johnny Cash on 3/5/76
Number one - County Chart; Number 29 - Pop Chart
Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs
Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.
One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.
CHORUS
I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It's just his white Chimera brother finally coming out after all these years.
Am I the only one who read the title and thought, "Finally! All this messing with genes has produced something useful, a fire-breathing Chimera with a lion's head and a goat's body"? On a more serious note, the nature article in a similiar vein is here.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Only if they leave liver deposits on the gun handle.
"It's a very tangled subsystem." --Windows kernel guru
Well, IANAMB (I am not a molecular biologist), but..
;) /me make jokey joke/
Well, IANAAA (I Am Not A Acronym Abuser) but what was the point of you using an obscure acronym if you had to spell it out for everybody anyways?
Technically, then, these people are actually two people rolled into one. They should get to vote twice at the voting booth, and should pay double to get into the movies.
In addition, their Slashdot posts should be modded up or down at double the normal amount.
Or could it be that they lost one contact lens? Hmmm.
Little Brother, watching the watchers
I never realised she was a chimera!
Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce
Any known birth defects/oddities arrise from this which manifest themselves in the physical sence?
Yes, a chronic inability to type and/or spell is quite common. Why do you ask?
Yeah, I heard Donald Kaufman already picked this one up.
He will be hard pressed to beat his blockbusting "The 3" though.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Cool! I found a picture of those striped mice. Some more pictures:
Closeup before eyes are formed.
In-vitro development in the lab.
Displaying remarkable inteligence as they swarm and are about to devour their much-bigger and unsuspecting prey (apparently striped mice are carnivorous)
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
I, for one, welcome our chimeric overlords...
What you witnessed is no different than what everyone else "witnesses" while on an acid trip. You gotta try to not freak out and go running to the Baptists everytime demons start eating your eyelids.
Look at the bright side. It provided you with an excellent chance to crow about Jesus.
and thats exactly the reason its my sig :)
The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.
So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.
The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."
So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds
From Johnny Cash's "One Piece at a Time"
Little Brother, watching the watchers
Probably it was just a joke. The statement: "Thank god I'm an atheist" implies that the person believes in god.
Then again, maybe its because he is an atheist and wants people to be aware that there are differing viewpoints. A great many Christians in the US seem to think that everyone else in the country is also a Christian. Stating that you're an atheist is similar to driving around with a Jesus fish on your car.
And, just as an FYI, warning an atheist about hell has about as much effect as telling the average adult that if they misbehave, Santa won't bring them any presents. In other words, none.
psmylie's dictionary: Godzillion (noun) Any number large enough to destroy Tokyo
You ate your twin before birth. Guilty!
Heh heh. Hell is as scary as hell. Who woulda thunk it?
I am the inventor of the hilarious refrigerator alarm.
Mosaics aren't Chimeras.
However, before the launch of Safari, I was using Chimera, a descendent of Mosaic.
Told ya. Worst joke evar.
My other computer is your Windows box