Life goes on without ''vital'' DNA

Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:00 am by freighter fighter

Life goes on without 'vital' DNA

It is not often that the audience at a scientific meeting gasps in amazement during a talk. But that is what happened recently when researchers revealed that they had deleted huge chunks of the genome of mice without it making any discernable difference to the animals.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:07 am by H.Q. Victor

Lets see a few generations down the road. As genes are passed down, albeit, suttel(sp) to other generations while not being ovious to a couple.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:18 am by Indy11

So the p f this arti is th t if y del t so e chr m s es, y st l g t m us ?

H m mm .. . .

Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:23 am by Zone

May I point out:

To find out the function of some of these highly conserved non-protein-coding regions in mammals, Edward Rubin's team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California deleted two huge regions of junk DNA

they deleted Junk DNA!

My gap year in Borneo

Fri Jun 04, 2004 9:37 am by Tawakalna

wht ld f ld blks

Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:39 am by H.Q. Victor

Messing with DNA is like messing with the regsiterty(sp) when you don't know what the lines are for or do. The tinker too much.

Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:28 pm by Leonhart

Lol, I hope that mice turns in to "something" and bites their ass. That would teach them not to mess with the natures design

Fri Jun 04, 2004 12:29 pm by Balthazar Furious

If the regions didn't code for proteins then obviously it's going to have little to no effect on the mice.

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I am just an imbecile,
I will only complicate you,
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Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:33 am by Esquilax

That's nothing new. DNA has a lot of superfluous information; it's common knowledge (I think

).

Sat Jun 05, 2004 3:37 am by Balthazar Furious

You're right, they're called introns. Little bits of useless DNA just sitting there taking up space for some yet unknown purpose.

I am just a worthless liar,
I am just an imbecile,
I will only complicate you,
Trust in me and fall as well.

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