DailyDirt: What's In Your... DNA?

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Filed Under: biotech, cancer, chromosomal proteins, crispr, dna, genetics, junk dna, stem cells, viruses


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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 17 Nov 2015 @ 6:46pm

    Ooh..

    And let's allow companies to patent biology and restrict all biotech progress!

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Umbrella Corp, 17 Nov 2015 @ 7:35pm

    Re: Ooh..

    We got this covered.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    127.0.0.1 (profile), 17 Nov 2015 @ 9:06pm

    Does anybody know how I can encrypt my DNA?

    "There can be only one" (Highlander).

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    Mikaela, 17 Nov 2015 @ 11:41pm

    Miracle of Nature

    It's amazing how some protein can make a living being.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    annonymouse, 18 Nov 2015 @ 4:44am

    What has the paranoid / realist concerned with research on the retro virus research is the use of this knowledge for commercial or military use.

    A reliable indicator is when all news on this just stops like the barking dog falling silent.

    link to this | view in thread ]

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    annonymouse, 18 Nov 2015 @ 4:44am

    What has the paranoid / realist concerned with research on the retro virus research is the use of this knowledge for commercial or military use.

    A reliable indicator is when all news on this just stops like the barking dog falling silent.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  7. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Nov 2015 @ 12:03pm

    Lots of things that I'll never share with 23andme.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  8. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 18 Nov 2015 @ 4:23pm

    Some people claim that copying is stealing. How can that be if we copy the DNA from our parents and they still survive?

    link to this | view in thread ]


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