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Genetic Clues to Cause of Death?
An anonymous reader writes "Nature is reporting that a certain 'telltale genetic fingerprint' may help scientists to more accurately determine a cause of death. From the article: 'Now a team at Nagasaki University has shown that a person's own genes might help to reveal how they met their end. Kazuya Ikematsu and his colleagues anesthetized and then killed two small groups of mice, by either strangulation with a string, or by decapitation. They dissected skin samples from the animals' necks and compared the activity of a broad spectrum of genes inside the skin cells, by looking at the amount of RNA pumped out by those genes. The researchers found four genes that were more active in the strangled animals than those that had died suddenly.'"
Personally I am against the killing of animals in a way that causes pain and/or fear. Even for scientific purposes.
I guess this test would be useful in determining if the subject was strangulated before decapitated, but how often are the investigators wondering that. Well, you know, the subject could have been strangulated *after* being decapitated. Although I'm not sure what the point of such action would be.
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reminds me the story about greece ...
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Clerk: Do you like some meat ?
Client: No i don't eat meat.
Clerk: Then perhaps some pork ?
Client: No i don't eat pork either. I don't eat meat at all.
Clerk: I see, so i should serve lamb ?
Client: No lamb, no pork, no meat. NO MEAT.
Clerk: Ah, why didn't you say it right away, you want chicken, right ?
Client: No you don't understand at all, i don't anything that walks!
Clerk: Walks walks
Client: {censored}{censored}{censored}{censored}{censored
vegetarians did extinct a while ago
anyway, i don't think that the words existance have much to do with the article
The value of a life of a mice greatly depends if it can tell you how soon you are going to die.
If you know you'll die next week, would you miss the chance to take a parachute jump or have
awsome sex with chinese twins ?
I don't like killing mice either
but as long as fun with chinese twins goes and parachute jumping, let's do it
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.