In a message dated 8/8/2003 10:25:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
blaze_at_netaxs.com writes:
> Oh, and just in case no one realized this: Contrary to popular Sci-Fi
> movies you could not change the DNA of a developed organism, that’s you, and have
> that organism mutate or morph into another organism. Such a radical
> alteration to the DNA would result in the host’s death, or permanent illness. I‘m
> sure this is quite the blow ;)
>
Naturally occurring free radicals can steal a molecule from a cells DNA, what
happens to the cell after that is random. It might die, it might be fine, or
it can turning into cancer because the cell doesn't know what to do so it just
replicates deformed cells until they're tumors.
Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 02:26:18 CDT