CLONING IS NOT A LAUGHING MATTER...ASK DOLLY...
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yep sounds like an issue for a cingular forum.
(big head, like the custs, get it, huh, haha) ๐คฃ ๐คฃ ๐คฃ yes i'm tired.
just an fyi. when you clone the clone starts life as old as the cells were when they were "harvested". in other words you could have a two year old with arthritis.
If the arthritis is genetic, it may be that the clone has arthritis, but more likely, the presence of arthritis will cause complications with the physiology in a way that might mimic the biological property of an arthritic joint, but the actual malady would be much worse than simple arthritis.
Genetics 101
As you go from embryo to adult, many changes (obviously, m'kay) take place in the body. At the gentic level, some of these changes are permanent. Switches, protein genes: a host of sequences that play an active role in the cells are switched off and many more are switched on. Something like what happens when your liver and spleen emerge from your zygotic proto-human form as distinct organs, with their own properties, happen...
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But then again this is a phone forum, not biology class, so take it to the lounge.
My Heinlein is limited to A Door into Summer
A gooder, too
If Heinlein is good for you, then you must involve yourself with the Ender and Shadow series from Orson Scott Card
Mmmmm, Scott Card *drool*
John Varley, Spider Robinson and Harlan Ellison are also highly recommended... ๐
Aleq said:
You just know that if Dubya came down with a nasty case of the never-get-overs and only stem cell research had a hope of saving his useless butt he'd have the okay for unlimited funding signed and off his desk so fast the ink would be smoking... ๐ Until then, though, the rest of the world can just go piss up a rope with its petty little health concerns--because only undifferentiated fetal cells have rights or priorities, don'cha know... ๐ ๐ ๐ก
Who says stem cell research isn't in full effect? It's getting funding from somewhere.
muchdrama said:Aleq said:
You just know that if Dubya came down with a nasty case of the never-get-overs and only stem cell research had a hope of saving his useless butt he'd have the okay for unlimited funding signed and off his desk so fast the ink would be smoking... ๐ Until then, though, the rest of the world can just go piss up a rope with its petty little health concerns--because only undifferentiated fetal cells have rights or priorities, don'cha know... ๐ ๐ ๐ก
Who says stem cell research isn't in full effect? It's getting funding from somewhere.
Yeah, AP article today says Dubya is trying to find some way to fund stem cell research as long as it do...
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