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Re: X-COM THE REMAKE (reply)

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From: Daniel C. Sobral
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 00:00
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Jakob wrote:
> 
> Human DNA mutation and cloning is something that has been explored for
> decades, and millions of earth's greatest minds have examined the problem,
> which lies in the fact that in order to change an entire human, all of his
> cells must be patterned from the same DNA. This problem manifests itself in
> a variety of ways, not the least of which being the immune system attacking
> organ transplants because of differences.

Now, this is going to far.

First, "decades" is what? Three decades? That is NOT a lot of time,
specially considering the technology only STARTED to become
available during the eighties.

Second, the idea that changing all the cells in the body is
necessary for a successful improvement of the human body through
genetic manipulation (mutation, if you want) is, essentially
speaking, incorrect. In fact, FDA is expect to APPROVE FOR USE a
drug which HAS BEEN TESTED WITH UNHEARD-OF RESULTS attacking cancer
by changing cells of only one organ of the body, which effectively
modifying the behavior of the body biodefenses.

> Now, I would appreciate it if people would try hard to understand what I'm
> saying here. If you don't change at least the vast majority of a person's
> DNA, you end up with cancer, war between the two organisms, or, if you're
> lucky, just a really fucked up looking person.

That is false.

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Daniel C. Sobral				(8-DCS)
d...@newsguy.com

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Subject: Re: X-COM THE REMAKE (reply)
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