How reliable is science? (The limitations of science)

by David Turell , Monday, April 16, 2012, 15:37 (4602 days ago) @ xeno6696


> The fact that a new and different gene appeared demonstrates that the DNA wasn't simply "restoring" an old function. Contrasting the novel cellular line with the billions of other cells without the function 
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> > c) See the part about non-interference. By necessity, it would have to be an unaltered specimen.
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> Why? Though bacterial resistance to antibiotics provides that argument, my engineering mind calls BS on this one, for the simple reason that we use gene knockouts *all the time* and as I said previously, when we knock something out of a genome, it doesn't come back.-But! antibiotic resistance is an old ability. I just presented an article here.