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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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Lancaster Gate
What have you got against NPR? This is cruel and unusual punishment for any web server.
You are Sorry, and I am sorry...
get in touch with that.
cyphering how many babies (made of the same gooed stuff as you are) it costs for a barroll of crudeness, we've decided to cut back, a lot, on wasteful things like giving monIE to felons, to help them destroy the planet/population.
no matter. the #1 task is planet/population rescue. the lights are coming up. we're in crisis mode. you can help.
the unlimited power (such as has never been seen before) is freely available to all, with the possible exception of the aforementioned walking dead.
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. more breathing. vote with yOUR wallet. seek others of non-aggressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit, moving you.
pay no heed to the greed/fear based walking dead.
each harmed innocent carries with it a bad toll. it will be repaid by you/us. the Godless felons will not be available to make reparations.
pay attention. that's definitely affordable, plus you might develop skills which could prevent you from being misled any further by phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated misinformation.
good work so far. there's still much to be done. see you there. FUDge on robbIE.
Where's "-1, Evil"?
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you cat fanatics? I've been sitting here on my sofa in front of a cat (a sealpoint siamese) for about 20 minutes now while attempting to get it's attention away from a bug on the floor. 20 minutes. At home, with my labrador cross, which by all standards should be a lot dumber than this cat, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this attention seeking attempt, my children's attention is also held by the cat. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even trying to get the remote from my partner fails.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while dealing with other cats, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a cat that fetches as much as it's canine counterpart, despite the cat's faster ambulatory system. My terrier with one ingrown toenail runs consistently faster than this siamese at times, as the cat is often completely asleep. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the cat is a superior animal.
Cat addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a cat over other faster, cheaper, more affectionate animals.
where do YOU keep Your extra chromosome?? In your Pocket? Under your Pillow? In your glovebox?
Mr. XYY
Something along the lines of "cats, although they are more advanced upstairs, they are so independant they dont give a crap about you, theyll just find a home elsewhere, they're elite animals indeed, dogs, while less advanced, are loyal and dependant of their owner/master, some people suppose that dog people need the assurance a dog supposedly gives you, being the "emotionally shallow" animal the dog, supposedly, is."
When Focker (Stiller) claims that he's more of a dog-person, a disgruntled Jack (DeNiro) asks, "So you prefer an emotionally shallow animal, do you?"
MORTAR COMBAT!
Now does that mean that I can commit a crime and not be caught?
I believe in God (and love).
Using DNA to test for a positive match is a sham. The National Research Council have admitted that much (remember the New York Times controversy when NRC released their report on DNA profiling in investigative work?)
After heavy pressure from various law enforcement agencies, they revised their report to say that it might be appropriate if the labs doing the tests were under strict national quality assurance (which they still aren't).
There have been several cases where a positive DNA match later turned out to indicate nothing more than that a person belonged to a certain group of the population. And there have been convictions that have been revoked because of this.
But imagine what would happen if the NRC published their original report? Thousands of convicts would want their cases retrialed. So that isn't going to happen. And dna profiling continues to be court admissable evidence.
For a good book on the topic, look for "Biologhy as Ideology: The Doctrine Of DNA" by Richard C. Lewontin, professor of biology at Harvard University.
Btw, did you know that the US is one of the few countries in the world where a lie detector test is court admissable?
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
Yahoo!