Quote:Some laboratory mice were given specially engineered insuling-producing genes. These genes were then remotely activated using radio waves. This could mean a whole new field of medical procedures in which we turn genes on and off at will.
This breakthrough is the work of geneticists at New York's Rockefeller University. It's a pretty circuitous path from the initial burst of radio waves to the activation of the gene, and there's still a lot of refinement and improvement that needs to be made before this can be used in medical treatments, but still - we're talking about the ability to modify the behavior of genes without ever going inside a patient's body. That's a potentially colossal advance. http://io9.com/5908065/s...-and-on-with-radio-waves
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I dread this has the potential to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. The trees spoke to me through the wind. The more I listened, the more they spoke.
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Entheojen wrote:I dread this has the potential to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Only if the powers-that-be manage to mass-manipulate genes or cell cultures in the population so they can activate them afterwards with radio waves. Unlikely. Cool story, house. "The Menu is Not The Meal." - Alan Watts
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Imagine what higher forms of intelligent life can do with that. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke http://vimeo.com/32001208
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This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.
Grow a plant or something and meditate on that
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okay i want to explain this a bit. They did not alter the DNA of the mice at all. That title is a misnomer. What they did was nothing new infact (look up inducible promoters if you want to see more experiments like this). They took iron ofxide particles and coated a receptor, this nano praticles were heated when they were bombarded with energy (in the form of low frequency radio waves) and that activated a receptor with led to an influx of calcium (and that activates a lot of celluluar pathways, and i mean like a metric buttload). one of the activation products led to the transcription of an insulin anabolic gene which led to the production of insulin which led to lower levels of sugar in their bloodstream. it is really cool ive only seen this in plants before. blooooooOOOOOooP fzzzzzzhm KAPOW!
This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.
Grow a plant or something and meditate on that
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Vodsel wrote:Entheojen wrote:I dread this has the potential to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Unlikely. Highly unlikely. weapons of mass distraction (social media networking sites, reality shows, etc) have already caused people to willingly become idiot zombies. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ hassan i sabbah
"Experiments are the only means of attaining knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." -Max Planck
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So true, soma is here! Both in media as benzyme stated, and chemically with oxycodone and xanax flooded into the population. Docile cattle drugged out. blooooooOOOOOooP fzzzzzzhm KAPOW!
This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking.
Grow a plant or something and meditate on that
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proto-pax wrote:okay i want to explain this a bit.
They did not alter the DNA of the mice at all. That title is a misnomer. What they did was nothing new infact (look up inducible promoters if you want to see more experiments like this). They took iron ofxide particles and coated a receptor, this nano praticles were heated when they were bombarded with energy (in the form of low frequency radio waves) and that activated a receptor with led to an influx of calcium (and that activates a lot of celluluar pathways, and i mean like a metric buttload). one of the activation products led to the transcription of an insulin anabolic gene which led to the production of insulin which led to lower levels of sugar in their bloodstream.
it is really cool ive only seen this in plants before. Yes - even though the DNA of these mice was already altered to have a calcium-sensitive insulin promoter. The radio waves were used to initiate this artificial pathway of calcium influx that eventually triggered insulin production. Need to calculate between salts and freebases? Click here! Need to calculate freebase or salt percentage at a given pH? Click here!
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Oh right, my bad. I didn't read the link, I just presumed they could do it on any type of gene, rather than doing something to the genes first. The trees spoke to me through the wind. The more I listened, the more they spoke.
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