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To: SpudFarmer who wrote (1062)	11/18/1999 1:47:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12247

Hey Presto, the magic of synergy, synchronicity and co-operation in the Web. Thanks for the reference to Celera Spudfarmer. Interesting that we have CDMA, IT and CDNA all together in that one little company you referred me to. compaq.com <Celera's operations are dedicated to human genomic research, the study of the structure and function of the human genetic system, or genome. The human genome includes approximately 80,000 genes and an estimated six billion base pairs, the basic unit of DNA or RNA. In IT terms, the genome is a text of six billion characters, and together with its associated annotations, Celera will require a multi-terabyte database. Due to the vast amounts of data and supporting documentation associated with this research, Celera required a comprehensive IT solutions provider that could design a high-performance computing environment offering rapid information processing and retrieval, virtually unlimited storage capabilities, and powerful networking tools and hardware to manipulate such data. With help from Compaq Services, Celera will use the Internet and electronic commerce technology to distribute its findings to the general public and scientific community.> That's an old news item from October 1998 and I believe they have been going like mad since and doing very, very well in sequencing the human genome. So I guess I'll find a lot more. I wasn't so much interested in a ton of melanin in the lab, but rather in the skin! White people will be able to just clip a few DNA strands into their genome and hey presto, [glitches aside] no more melanoma and sunburn [not much anyway]. No more of a lot of genetic problems where parents pass on their rotten DNA to their unfortunate offspring in the grotesque quantum computing random distribution of DNA which only the very few survive after 'market testing'. I can think of a few genes I've got that I'd like cancelled and replaced. So could most people. Then there are all the rotten genes we carry, but don't know about, just passing them on to offspring if we unluckily join up with a matching defect partner. For stock picking, we could always clip some of that Chimp's DNA into the right spot [I'll pass on that one, but some might like it]. Mqurice

To: SpudFarmer who wrote (1062)	11/18/1999 4:03:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12247

Spudfarmer, I've had a little read about Celera and had read about it a month or so ago somewhere. They sure seem to be doing a good job, but again it seems a bit like AFFX, selling the shovels to the claim stakers. I realize they have patents on DNA sequences. But somehow, it seems to me that if I want to mix my DNA with somebody else's, they can't really tell me I can't do that because they have a patent on my DNA. It would only be special process or invention or something they can claim. Obviously that leaves them plenty of scope to work on. I don't know about patent law applied to DNA. I'd have thought the best place to invest would be the patents involved in sticking the DNA into the target cells so that a good quality baby could be hatched. Or maybe cloning those good quality babies so Mums could choose from a catalogue. Mums [and Dads] could really compete on their children then because if there are 500 of a particular clone, it would be pretty obvious who is doing a good job of being parents. They wouldn't be able to blame their partner's DNA or some recessive gene. The clone down the road would be happy and healthy, growing well and enjoying life. Children could go into fields that really suit them - if a clone turns out to be really talented at golf or chess or computer programming or writing or singing, then later clones could be given those things to try out - they'd have a natural bent so would do very well if they wanted to. It wouldn't be any good encouraging weightlifting in a tall skinny clone! Got any patents on cloning, DNA attachments [replacements] or stuff like that? If I was a cystic fibrosis carrier, I'd pay a lot of $$1000s to not pass it on to my child. A nice clip of a normal DNA would suit me just fine. CDNA, working with CDMA and symbiotic with IT will rule the world!! There is gold in them thar hills. Mqurice