The occurrence of cell fusion events in skeletal muscle provides a potential mechanism for the introduction of exogenous DNA to cure genetic myopathies, while increasing evidence is emerging that fusion of cancer cells and bone marrow derived cells may enable and promote cancer metastasis [ 4– 7].
The researchers believe that, instead, it may actually be the persistence of HIV DNA that could cure infected patients.
Loss-of-function mutations in xrep-1 mutants resulted in constitutive expression of many GSTs and other phase II enzymes in the absence of acrylamide, and the wild-type xrep-1 allele carried on a DNA construct successfully cured the mutant phenotype of the constitutive enzyme expression.
The new DNA sequences were edited by curing restriction endonucleases (NdeI, XhoI, EcoRI, NotI, XbaI, SpeI and PstI) sites and any predicted secondary mRNA structures.
More recently, Gunn has also reached into the world of biotech, interviewing the people who decode our DNA, seek cures for cancer, and hope to solve the energy crisis along the way.
The co-transfer of plasmids of sizes 21.5, 15.2, and 5.0 kb suggests that these extrachromosomal DNAs are R plasmids, even though curing experiment was not done.
This would, in effect, create genetically modified people by causing artificially altered DNA to pass from parent to offspring, curing inherited diseases.
Now, however, it's becoming clear that supercomputers hold the key to creating new drugs, curing diseases and eventually letting us modify our own DNA.
Since the publication in 1968 of his opinionated memoir, "The Double Helix," Dr. Watson, 79, has been known for his provocative statements (please see "Stupidity Should be Cured, Says DNA Discoverer," New Scientist, Feb. 28, 2003), but this time he apologized.
I'm off downstairs now to play a next-generation DNA sequencing machine like a bongo in case it turns out to be instrumental in curing cancer.
