Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

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Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 23, 2005 @09:55AM from the early-stages dept.

ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"

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Finally. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-23 09:58 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Finally some INTERESTING news on Slashdot. Fuck was today ever boring.
Yeah... by bigtallmofo · 2005-03-23 10:01 · Score: 0, Offtopic

But what if your name's not Gene?

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Technology sucks... by John+Seminal · 2005-03-23 10:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Technology is the new 'root of all evil'.
For thousands of years many native americans and those living in the rainforests of South America, along with tribes in Africa knew plants cure diseases.
The USA sent scientists to find these plants. These companies then discovered the compounds in the plants that cure disease. The next step for the company was to copywrite the "discovery", so nobody else could use it.
What does this all mean? Don't get sick. And if you do, don't chew on plants or you might get a court order saying you've violated the copywrite holders rights.

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Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
Homer by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-23 10:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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