Timeline for How would a human be affected if plant DNA was injected into their system?
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 0:28 | comment | added | Ella KZ | Harper - Reinstate Monica: "Injected" not inhaled | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 18:12 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Happens everytime you step outside your door. That's why there's a section in the drugstore called "Allergy" stocked with Benadryl, Claritin, Zyrtec etc. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 10:44 | comment | added | spodger | This reminds me of an old Viz "news article" which speculated that the Queen may have been injected with "monkey chemicals". | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 20:03 | answer | added | Layman | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 15:45 | answer | added | Eric Towers | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 15:02 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 14:27 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 3, 2020 at 3:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 3, 2020 at 1:31 | comment | added | Ella KZ | John O- Oh yes very much so! haha that's a great idea! | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 23:40 | history | edited | Galactic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 21:31 | comment | added | John O | A more interesting question is what would happen if humans had chloroplasts inserted into their skin stem cells. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 20:20 | answer | added | LSerni | timeline score: 42 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:38 | comment | added | JBH | Please keep in mind that if you inject enough of anything into the bloodstream, it will eventually kill the host by displacing too much necessary blood. I'm jumping to the conclusion that such an amount is not being injected. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:37 | comment | added | JBH | I'm going to let someone with more biology than I have officially answer - but I could easily believe that not a thing would happen. The foreign DNA, which isn't doing anything other than float around int he blood stream (unlike a virus) would either (a) be broken apart and used like any other organic stuff, (b) be filtered by the kidneys and casually evicted in, perhaps, curiously lime-colored urine, or (c) would invoke the human immune system until (b) happened. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:36 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | In terms of mechanical properties, it depends on a few factors. DNA extraction techniques have a tendency to produce stringy jelly-like masses, would cause blockage in blood vessels, potentially pulmonary emboli - harm the patient's lung function when injected into a vein, but I'm sure you can find a way of handwaving that for a story if necessary. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:28 | answer | added | Cem Kalyoncu | timeline score: 8 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:16 | history | edited | Ella KZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
A comment was quite helpful so I thought I should edit the question thanks to the comment to make it more specific.
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:12 | comment | added | AlexP | You mean, injected in the bloodstream? It's a foreign substance as any other. Chances are that the kidneys will filter it out and it will be excreted. (DNA is not a protein, so the immune system won't get involved, most likely.) DNA as such seems to be not particularly toxic (see here for one of the few examples of tests); but then, nobody got to try with large amounts of DNA -- DNA is not usually available in bulk, not because it would be impossible but because nobody thought of any possible use. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:10 | history | edited | Ella KZ |
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:03 | history | asked | Ella KZ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |