From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 21:29:27 MST
"White, Ryan" wrote:
> It
> will eventually be possible to combine the two by having nanotechnology
> provide the codes within biological entities (replacing DNA).'
>
> How would one propose to accomplish the replacement of DNA in this manner?
Well, one place to inject new "genetic" information is at the point
where RNA is transcribed (heretofore, from DNA). Ribosomes read the RNA
to produce proteins.
>
> To what end?
>
> Ryan v24.5
To what end does your genetics shape you now? I would suppose, in the
most general way, one could overcome some limitation in one's genetics,
whatever one might consider such a limitation to be, in this way.
Michael v45+11/24ths
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