[117328] in Cypherpunks
free basing fruit flies & DFA & DNA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Tue Aug 31 14:36:11 1999
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 20:03:10 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908311803.UAA14771@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
At 06:50 PM 8/30/99 -0700, Dale Thorn wrote:
>What would be the long-term effect on the human gene pool if one were to
make an
>analogy to Differential Fault Analysis for use in "decoding" DNA
processes? One
People have been varying individual amino acids and
looking at the effect on the resulting protein
for a long time now. E.g., mutations in the photoreceptor
gene causes shifts in the spectral adsorbance of the
encoded protein. You can buy animals where an entire
gene has been knocked out, too.
A recent _Science_ paper
described how fruit flies with mutant circadian rhythm
genes respond differently to free basing. Really.
RibosomeMonger
