>Yes Glen, and sadly I know of lots of folks whose mtDNA is 99.999%
>similar and they still can't seem to produce viable offspring.
>Gerry
Gee, too bad, no buyable offspring. It's a large market nowdays.
Actually while we're on the subject of genetics, in relation the previous
topic involving longetivity and telomerase, apparently according to a
science program on the Discovery Channel I have here in Canada, there was a
scientist who managed already to alter genes in fruitflies specifically to
help them produce more "free radical blockers". They lived a third longer
and were healthier. Cool stuff. I guess we got the "free radicals" down and
the telomerase doesn't look like much of a problem since someone has already
altered a single human cell so that it goes on dividing indefinitely. Why,
it's probably still dividing as we speak. Wow, I'm gettin' me some gene
therapy, baby.
See yo'll in the year 3000!
- gLeN
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