Thursday, January 04, 2007

Scientists are looking....RUN!

The DNA so dangerous it does not exist.

"Says Greg Hampikian, professor of genetics at Boise State University in Idaho, "There must be some DNA or protein sequences that are not compatible with life, perhaps because they bind some essential cellular component, for example, and have therefore been selected out of circulation. There may also be some that are lethal in some species, but not others. We're looking for those sequences."

They..are..looking..for..these...

*blink*

"Further down the line there is the possibility of constructing a "suicide gene" to code for deadly amino acid primes. It could be attached to genetically modified organisms and activated to destroy them at a later date if they turned out to be dangerous, Hampikian suggests."

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