Your alter ego

Our DNA contains all our genetic material. But it contains more than that. It actually contains twice as much information what is used in our physical bodies for producing the proteins that makes what we are including our physical appearance.

Wouldn't it be interesting to know the other half of  the information our DNA contains?

Well, probably in not so far future it might be one of very exciting ways to spend couple of thousands of dollars to ask scientists to make up a real photo for your alter ego. The procedure could be quiet simple. You would sign the contract with the company that no information from your DNA would be given out to third parties and some other legal stuff. Then you would be guided to the laboratory where scientists would take a little blood from you to get some of your stem cells. Then scientists would extract the DNA from the stem cell and split each of the chromosomes into two chromatides. Now all that information would be read and uploaded to the computer, which will run the algorithm and will identify which nucleotides makes up the gene. Once that is done it will figure out which of the genes are used by you, but which are not used and thus belongs to your alter ego.

Now we are moving a little bit into the side of science fiction, where with that information computer simulation software would produce the visual appearance of body that these genes makes.

How long do we need to wait for this to happen? I'd say 100 years or more.

Comments

Anonymous said…
ok its your opinion but how about other scientists.What they say?
12 Jul 2012, 19:41:00
Jēkabs Kārkliņš said…
Well, after a quick look around in the Google, looks no one really cares, yet (:.
12 Jul 2012, 23:56:00
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