Posted on 08/01/2018 5:09:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
For at least the last 10 million years every yeast cell of the sort used to make beer or bread has had 16 chromosomes. But nowthanks to CRISPR technology and some DNA tinkerers in Chinathere are living yeast with just one.
Genome organizer: We humans have our genes arranged on 46 chromosomes, yeast use 16, and theres even a fern plant with 1260 of them. Thats just the way it is. And no one is quite sure why.
The big one: Do we really need so many chromosomes? Thats what Zhogjun Qin and colleagues at the Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology in Shanghai wanted to know.
With CRISPR, the gene-editing tool, Qins team chopped out the button-like centromeres that hold each stringy chromosome together, and then started fusing them into one long chain. The result: organisms with eight, four, two, and even finally just one single giant chromosome.
(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...
“Hey, we don’t know how this works, so let’s tinker with it. What could go wrong? “
And while we’re at it, let’s see if we can somehow connect it to a computer chip. With wifi and 5G and that kind of stuff. Then we’d really be cooking!
Cant leaven well enough alone.
You don't miss the water 'til the well runs dry.
Yeah. It's really stupid and scary for these clowns to be messing around "creating" new species. Yeast is vital to our food and pharmaceutical industries, and of course beer and wine. They don't even have a clue what they are doing yet the potential damage is catastrophic.
The Rock, and George the CRISPR gorilla:
Maybe just maybe someone could figure out a way to induce a brain to infiltrate a Dem brain. Or is that too much to ask?
One of my faves, Island of Terror with Peter Cushing.
Dont bother asking the waitress out, she only has a single chromosome and reproduces by asexual budding.
CRISPR?
Sounds like some machine they would have in the kitchen of Popeyes or KFC or Church’s.
That movie terrified me! That and “The Fly.”
Pharmaceuticals are already targeting ethnic groups with genetics, for your own good. Ever wonder why they want you to take hanful after handful of drugs and vax? Mengele was a genetic hero ubtil we found out how he did it.
“choose the form of your destroyer” Ok, um breadsticks?
Strictly speaking, I think yeast is a fungus.
Some have proposed the fungi as a third kingdom in addition to plants and animals.
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