Symbiogenesis? (page 2)

hamilcarr

Maybe the link article about jumping genes swapping species might trigger some discussion ?

Satanus

Veddy intudestink. Evos smirk, quietly (smugly).

S

The integration/invasion of foreign dna into the host's dna is an evolutionary theory. It's cool to see evidence for the process come up. It is supposed to happen in stages, first a migration to the rna, and then some may migrate to the dna.

S

BurnTheShips

Maybe the link article about jumping genes swapping species might trigger some discussion ?

Perhaps there is a greater unity to life than we thought. BTS

snowbird

From The Message Bible:

Psalm 104:24 What a wildly wonderful world, God !
You made it all, with Wisdom at your side,
made earth overflow with your wonderful creations.

Sylvia

BurnTheShips

It is unlikely humans could become photosynthetic in this way. "Our digestive tract just chews all that stuff up - the chloroplasts and the DNA," she adds.

Maybe viruses could do the trick?

They are already being used to transform normal human sells into plenipotentiary stem cells indistinguishable in ability from the natural embryonic variety.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/93766.php

Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ACTC) together with colleagues announced today the development of five human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines without the destruction of embryos. These new results have the potential to end the ethical debate surrounding the use of embryos to derive stem cells. In fact, the NIH report to the President refers to this technology as one of the viable alternatives to the destruction of embryos.

The company in particular that seems to be taking the lead in this (Advanced Cell Technology), the Chief Science Officer wrote an article that was the subject of a thread some time ago:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/157649/1.ashx

Induced plenipotentiarity in human cells using a viral carrier? Sounds a lot like some of the genetic symbiogenic processes that shapes the living things we see.

BTS

SixofNine

And we'll steal this slug's idea. In 20 years, we'll "grow" much of our fuel in a much more direct manner (possibly totally synthetic) than we can now with any current bio-fuel.

BurnTheShips

And we'll steal this slug's idea. In 20 years, we'll "grow" much of our fuel in a much more direct manner (possibly totally synthetic) than we can now with any current bio-fuel.

We could be doing some of this stuff right now on people, I mean the stem cell stuff, not the photosynthesis stuff. It isn't even going to harm any human embryos, so the ethical issues are not there. But guess what someone said? "Not while I'm Preznit" BTS

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