Genetically Modified Humans Born
Posted by: Dan Brosemer (odin) on May 17, 2001 at 00:36:16
from the the-eve-within-you-will-awaken dept.
BBC news is reporting that the first genetically modified humans have been born. If I understand correctly, this was a modification to mitochondrial DNA, and will, thus, be passed on to these children's offspring. This is something we've known our society would have to get ready for for a long time now. Are we prepared?
BBC cloning mtDNA
Unfortunately my town desktop is ailing or dead and Iby al jab on 2001-05-26 20:25:55
cannot run the BBC ticker on my lapdog at camp, so I
missed this momentous non event.
It's not only immoral unethical sinister and
deranged but fortunately it is undoable. Scientific
woodoo junk science akin to ufo cold fusion perpetuum
mobile et al.
But it behooves us to review a bit. We must
understand basic science or we are doomed, for mountebanks
idiots and self serving carreerists will misinform the
gullible public and use the abysmally scientifically
illiterate media, and the ridiculously moronic politicians
who make these asinine decisions.
But enough diatribe lets talk science.
Classically (this means only 50 not 2500 years)
all genetic information is loaded into the cell nucleus
and this polymer or long molecule of repeated subunits
transmits all instructions to the cell. This is the DNA
nuclear Desoxyribonucleic acid. Now we call it nDNA
or nuclear DNA as it has become clear in the last few
decades that there is an organelle inside nearly every
cell called a mitochondrion that also possesses its own
separate but equal ha ha DNA now called mtDNA or
mitochondrial DNA. It has also become clear that the
mitochondrion has a lot more than the originally assigned
role of being the powerhouse or energy supplier or
battery as it were of the cell, but has its own
synthetic functions, it makes its own proteins, it is a
maquiladora of the cell producing parts for external
assembly, this in the case of heme or chlorophyll.
Also there are innumerable diseases due to
mitochondrial malfunction.
The spermatocyte is made of head consisting of
nDNA and now you know what that is, a neck or midriff
section entirely made up of fasces like bundle of
longitudinally aligned mitochondriae containing mtDNA,
and this does not enter the oocyte(female egg) but is
jettisoned like a used up unnecessary rocket stage, and
finally the flagellum the tail the whip mere contractile
protein. So the mtDNA is exclusively matrilinear, all our
mitochondriata come from mama none from papa. Sorry guys
you are not only mere sperm donors, you dont even get to
keep your mtDNA. All is mother to daughter or son, none
from father, in all eukaryote(ie higher) plants and
animals.
Without this very basic biology you are lost.
So are all scientists even with it as nearly none had a
clue that Dolly was not a clone but a chimaera. A
creature made up of fortuitous haphazard nonreproducible
arrangement or rather combination of different organisms.
So Dolly wasnt a clone, they only cloned nDNA by
nuclear transfer only, they did not touch the mtDNA.
So poor hapless Dolly had identical nDNA to her mama and
her sisters if any but each had different mtDNA. So sorry
no clones, not at all not even close.
So now they cloned mtDNA, but not nDNA? Same story
same hoax same media frenzy. Only this time they did not
clothe the emperors behind instead of his torso.
So the poor bugger is still unclothed, but the dumb
courtiers and the befuddled public still admire the new
clothes.
There is no emperor and she has no clothes.
aj