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[threemonkeys]

Want to have some fun next time you are discussing life the universe and everything. Lob this little factiod into the conversational mix. Watch as blood pressures goes up as everybody madly tries to explain that we are more than our genes and that humanity is defined by so much more than a repeated gene sequence. That the mutually compatible truth and non-truth of this position should be entirely self evident does not stop the fun.

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[mundens.livejournal.com]

OK, so now to get a prison load of unwanted human breeding pairs, and selectively tinker with this gene unti I create Teela Brown. Or a Kwisatz Haderach. Or The Mule. Or something anyway.

Silent Hill anyone?

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

It is a fun thing to play around with the idea of breeding for luck or mental powers. But unless you can find a gene that codes for such power (unlikely) then you need to build a whole new gene and we don't know how to do that yet, let alone what specific gene or gene complex we would need.

What this discovery does mean is that you can realistically try to breed for people with greater numbers of the DUF1220 gene - more than the 212 we have at the moment. The potential for people with more powerful sets of existing mental capabilities becomes real. This mean - better learning capability, faster thinking, faster sensory processing, better reactions etc.

Actually, it would just be easier to inject people with the protein that this gene codes for. But where do you get the protein from - it would be awfully difficult to synthesize and a lot easier to extract it from living subjects. *evil chuckle*