RE: human cloning

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From: S. Mike Dierken (mike@knownow.com)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 14:56:27 PDT

Yeah, the telomere 'problem' still exists.
As each strand of DNA divides during cell reproduction, one strand is 'one
bit shorter' than the other. There are some 'stop bits' at the end -
telomeres - and the replication algorithm has a bug.

One cell has the same length as it's 'parent', and the other is one bit
shorter. Over time the average length gets smaller & then the stop bits
disappear & the replication fails to be accurate.

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rbfar@ebuilt.com [mailto:rbfar@ebuilt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:39 PM
> To: John Klassa; fork@xent.com; David Crook
> Subject: Re: human cloning
>
>
> Wasn't some study done though that showed the age of the cells of
> the cloned
> sheep was the same as the age of the sheep they were cloned from?
> (In other
> words use for body parts is tough....)
>
> R
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Crook" <dcrook@commwerks.com>
> To: "John Klassa" <klassa@mail.com>; <fork@xent.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 2:26 PM
> Subject: Re: human cloning
>
>
> > At 04:53 PM 9/27/00 -0400, John Klassa wrote:
> > >
> > >[ No (personal) bits... I'm too dumbstruck. I'm not liking where this
> > > stuff is headed. ]
> > >
> > > CLONAID Will Soon Start Cloning the First Human Baby
> > > http://www.newsminute.com/clonaid.htm
> > >
> > > CLONAID Web Site
> > > http://www.clonaid.com/
> >
> > I don't like it either. I looked all over the clonaid site and there
> > wasn't a signup form anywhere. I'm already 31 and I'm going to have to
> get
> > a move on if I'm going to have a few clones on hand for spare
> parts in the
> > coming years. Where the hell am I going to get a new liver from now?
> >
> > Dave

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