I'm just really interested in our body. And how genes are passed on through generations, all that sort of stuff.
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Visit this site :\nhttp://www.forrestps.act.edu.au/hwh_body.htm\nYou'll get links to several allied sites as well - all of which should provide all the info you need !\nCheers !
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With the stuff they're experimenting with nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised.  For example, they are studying some reptiles that can regrow their body parts in an attempt to find a way for humans to regrow their organs.  I'm not a scientist, but this may be able to reanimate the body given the right conditions.
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assuming that you're not talking about killing your parents or your ancestors:\n\ni am told that the cells in our bodies are constantly replacing themselves, the dead ones. the stomach lining is replaced every 48 hours (?), most everything else in your body every 4 - 6 months, and the oldest living tissue - the brain and bones - every 7 years.\n\nso at that you are NOT made of the same materials or the same cells from more than 7 years ago. you have replaced your entire body with another.\n(not counting the tips of your hair that may be older than 7 years ;-)\n\nbet you didn't even feel a thing! :-)
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I think you were the one who told me about the facts of life...When my boys were not yours....LOL Summers ago...LOL\n\n DNA~ can and is transformed we just don't read about it in our daily news papers..Our government doesn't want to open another "Jurassic Park" lol ~~ are you laughing yet~ I  so am .....
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You're trying to say you have a synthetic chromosome. I would check all the experiments for contamination, and check the cells for endogenous expression before jumping to that conclusion. There are a lot of hurdles to leap, as mentioned in the other posts.
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I think it's cool. I hope I'm romping on the beach in my sixties, with the love of my life. I would have expressed my newfound admiration and respect, lol. More power to them. And extra points for their lack of shame, and their sense of humour. Why do we think older people  don't have bodies, or desires? It's weird.
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Humans are not the most studied organism as far as genetics go.  That's probably the mouse or fruit fly.  Humans are crappy subjects.  For one, our DNA mixes alot, we mate w/ whoever we want to.  Good genetic organisms are genetically identical from one indiv. to the next.  For two, our generation time is 20 years or so (the time between birth and having first kid).  And we only pop out 1 or 2 a year.  Good genetic organisms like mice can pop out 8 every 8 weeks or so (6 or 5 weeks if they are pushing it). Better, flies lifecycle is 1-2 weeks, and they generate thousands of offspring.  Further, we can't manipulate our genome, it's not ethical to do so.  Also, although we can communicate with each other, we haev to follow all sorts of protocols, we can't just inject people with whatever we want.  Human research is extremely slow and extremely expensive, for these reasons mainly.  Nobody wants to kill a patient during a clinical trial, many trials have been halted due to this.    Population studies on humans is very complicated and huge family trees are reqd to generate useful data.  I think these are the main reasons, dunno if i missed any.
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I'm trying to learn more about it. It's an interesting topic.
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genetics dude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulite
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I am intrigued...Tell me more.
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Have you ever wondered whether the advances in science and technology would provoke nature’s need for revenge? Have you ever thought of what might happen if we keep on the exploit what we have, our lands and our bodies? Because I have. I feel that what nature is preparing for us will come out of the blue, exactly when we least expect it. And the cause for this would lie in our actions. And why? Simply because we have no idea what we’re doing while polluting our planet, using chemicals in everything and we are even thinking about modifying our children’s looks and brains. We are pushing our luck with the advances in agriculture, genetics and medicine. \n\nFor a start, all humans are so used to using technology and taking antibiotics that I’m not even sure that we could survive without them. For example, children weren’t used to such strong pills ten years ago as they are now, since a very young age. The research that I’ve made into the media shows that genetically improved corn makes the danger of famine in many parts of the world a thing of the past, but do these people realize that such meals don’t provide enough vitamins and thus puts their health at risk? And do they know how a specific body would react to such things? My opinion is that people should consider their interference in agriculture if they don’t want to provoke nature to strike back. \n\nModifying plants is not the only business of nature with which people mess up. Knowing the way your child will look like when it grows up is to be no longer something extraordinary. But if it becomes a normal thing to take a picture of a star and say that your heir looks like him or her, imagine how simple the child’s life would be, there would be nothing interesting or surprising to happen to its looks. Not only that, imagine what life would be if we all looked like dolls in the Disney shop :). In addition, the smallest and simplest mistake could cause mutations or provoke long-lost inherited diseases in the family tree. It is the same thing with the organs that will be created in laboratories soon- the risk of health ‘problems’ is too high. My research shows that the average lifespan would soon be over eighty years of age. And what will happen if everyone lived up to a thousand years old? The world would be overpopulated and the people who would work wouldn’t be enough to feed those who wouldn’t. And that would be a disaster. \n\nHowever, medicine is well developed nowadays. A patient who had an organ transplanted is celebrating the tissue’s tenth year of normal function in his body, according to the media. Transplantations make people with an infected organ live normally, but that has its price. First of all, it is very risky to undertake such an operation, but the results might be tremendous. The second threat comes right after the end of the surgeon’s ‘masterpiece’- the danger of inheriting diseases from the owner of the organ. In addition, I don’t think it is ethically correct to allow people to literally sell parts of their bodies. At least not for such prices like $2000, which is how much a kidney costs in Turkey. What’s more, we all know what kinds of risks cosmetic surgery involves- for example, if you make your lips bigger, the substance might decide to change its position in a year and move to your cheek. \n\nTo sum up, scientists’ ability to make nature work for them has had clear benefits. Of course some people do question the ethics of certain experiments, and others demand to know just how far we are prepared to go with scientific changes. Nevertheless, the benefits to both individuals and the whole of society outweight these concerns, but can’t outweight what the future could bring to us as a revenge for playing with nature.
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Greying hair is genetic from the MOTHERS side. Take a look at your relatives.
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Immortality is a tough one.  There is, however, plenty of scientific evidence that aging is in large part genetically programmed. Individuals with certain genetic mutations for example succumb to a premature aging disorder called progeria. Teenagers with this disorder have grey hair, wrinkles, bone degeneration and many other symptoms associated with old age. The fact that these events are genetically controlled, indicates that drugs or genetic therapies can be designed to regulate either slow down or completely inhibit these processes. We would first need to identify the genes that are important.  Studies from a number of groups working in the fruit fly system have used old school breeding strategies to accomplish this.  They raised a colony of fly's separating males and females.  They then allow the last remaining, oldest male and female to breed. Repeat this process 10,000 times over 15 years and what you get is a fly with a life span >3x that of a normal fly (that's 400 years to you and me).  You can then compare the genes that are expressed in your super-fly to that of a normal fruit fly and identify candidate longevity  genes.  This has been done and the human versions of these genes have been identified. The results are fascinating and certainly have the potential to guide therapeutic development.  All of this will not help you if you walk in front of a bus at the spry, young age of 184. Alas immortality is just a dream, rooted in selfishness and a fear of the unknown. Live the life you have to the fullest and try to make a difference in the lives of others.
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We are born that way and our genetic coding is enhanced by the views of the society we live in.  We can't help ourselves, it's what we are programmed to do!
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Its hard to see yes but if you think about it like this it makes sense.  It would be impossible to have different genes in each specialized cell.  This is because what do we start out as?  One cell.  The we go through a duplication stage where we make more cells identical to that cell.  So all of the cells in our bodies have the same DNA.  In order to specialize, our cells have to vary in gene expression because all of our cells have the same genetic material.
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Most of the cells in your body are identical in terms of genetic content (DNA/chromosomes).\n\nThe huge variety of cells is due to the fact that as we develop from a fertilized egg into an embryo and beyond, there are different signals passed around constantly that direct cells to divide and grow in certain ways such that a human being is the end result.  Throughout life, these "molecular instructions" are maintained so that our cells stay the proper type.  (Sometimes, improper maintenance of these directions can lead to cancer.)\n\nExpression of genes (that is, transcription from DNA to mRNA, and then translation to protein) will of course dictate how the process goes.  Different proteins exist in each different cell type due to variable expression.
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The anunaki supposedly engineered modern humans and we are The 7Th genetic experiment on earth. very interesting ideas i keep an open mind on all things until somethings proved  100%. fact .            good question