Comments | ontd_science: 500-million-year-old gene spliced into modern bacteria

messy_hair in ontd_science

500-million-year-old gene spliced into modern bacteria

Jul 15, 2012 11:55

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biology, science fiction into science reality, evolution/adaptation

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gmonkey42 July 15 2012, 20:19:15 UTC

AWESOME

It's nice to know there are still applications for cloning, now that next-gen sequencing has eliminated the need for that with mixed-DNA samples, lol.

gmonkey42 July 15 2012, 20:23:51 UTC

Well, they have to evolve along the same trajectory, right? lol

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thelastsong July 15 2012, 22:45:19 UTC

Yeah, I was about to say, "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." Gives me some willies, bringing back millienia-old bacteria!

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thelastsong July 15 2012, 23:06:06 UTC

CHAOS THEORY, CHAOS THEORY! I had some Jurassic Park icons before my paid account ran out...

Haha, fair enough! I am by no means any sort of biologist and certainly not at this kind of level. I suppose the idea just made me feel a bit strange.

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nahele_101 July 16 2012, 00:38:55 UTC

Very fucking cool.

Thanks for the story!

silmaril July 16 2012, 17:26:36 UTC

This is neat.

Paranthetically, though, Betül is a female name, so that would be "her doctoral advisor." (I understand that the original source made the mistake.)

gmonkey42 July 17 2012, 16:09:22 UTC

I thought it was weird that there was a picture of a woman, whom I assumed was Kaçar, but then it said "he." Thanks for pointing it out!