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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/01/2006 : 03:31:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Vegeta
hopefully this will lead to my eventual immortality
One may hope. But I read something just now that was left out of the LiveScience article: Deinococcus radiodurans carries multiple copies of its genome. That may be the key to understanding how it is able to reassemble its DNA without data errors. Unfortunately, it also implies that the unknown mechanisms that the microbe uses wouldn't work so well with human or many other forms of DNA, since only one genome copy is normally carried by most creatures.
That's bad news for my hopes of scientists someday reassembling fractured nuclear DNA from critters like Neanderthal, the mammoth, etc. To say nothing of the possibilities of human resurrection.
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