MadSci Network: Genetics
Query:

Re: Can you make an normal cell undergo meiosis?

Date: Tue Mar 22 09:03:51 2005
Posted By: Vitor Pordeus, M.D., Clinical Research Center, Center for Autoimmune Diseases - Federal Fluminense University
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 1110174414.Ge
Message:

Theoretically yes, but not today as far as I know.
Many paradigms in this area of cell differentiation have been broken in 
the last years. However the cellular machinery is far too complex to our 
simple minds. I believe that once we develop the right tools to analyse 
cell proteins, gene expression and how to interfere in these networks of 
reactions, we'll be able to reprogramme virtually any biological 
phenomena. The first examples in this area are the DNA, RNA and Protein 
microarrays, that analyse thousands of nucleotides sequences (DNA and RNA) 
or proteins simultaneously, and through multiparametric statistical 
analysis traces patterns, profiles that are more representative of the 
studied biological phenomena. These answers are coming from outside 
biology, from fields like complex systems physics, network behavior and so 
on... a field collectively known as complexity science.



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