Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes 363
ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's
laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"
Planet RAID. (Score:4, Funny)
Yous a vine muthafucka! (Score:4, Funny)
Parity bits? (Score:5, Funny)
Plant Superheroes! (Score:5, Funny)
OK, OK... and some hot plant-on-plant action.
OK, OK... and some hot plant-on-plant-on-me action.
Oh, that's going to be a problem (Score:5, Funny)
Who gave these plants permission to make backups of their grandparents material? I mean - really!
OK - seriously, this is a fascinating idea, one that hopefully is indeed correct and can be explored. With this information, perhaps 20 years from now we can correct genetic abnormalities by having fetuses fix themselves. Kudos to the researchers for their hard work.
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Restore point? (Score:4, Funny)
So plants create restore points they can roll back to? I predict Microsoft filing suit against the plant kingdom. They've been fighting the proliferation of tree based products for years!
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How this impacts ME (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So what happens to gentically modified plants? (Score:2, Funny)
keyboards, how antiquated
Re:Planet RAID. (Score:5, Funny)
Copying? If it bothers you so much you can always sue them for patent infringement. Of course the plants might lawyer up and come back at you claiming prior art....
Re: I'm pretty close to this research... (Score:2, Funny)
> This really is no joke, these results are really exciting! I suggest everyone read the article.
Sorry; that's not customary on Slashdot.
Re:Planet RAID. (Score:3, Funny)
I welcome our new plant overlords.