Timeline for Medical Conditions and Copying Rumplestiltskin
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 23:46 | vote | accept | RandomDSdevel | ||
| Nov 14, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | RandomDSdevel | You're talking about telomeres, right? A society with enough of an understanding of genetic engineering could probably repair these, and such knowledge would also aid that society in reconstructing a complete organism from a single digitized sample of somebody's genome. In the far-future setting in which I am placing my story, human society has evolved to the point where science has progressed enough for such knowledge to be commonplace among learned individuals. | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 0:47 | comment | added | Oldcat | There is some useless DNA at the end of the link that is used up when a germ cell turns into a complete cell. So cloned copies don't live as long as the original. | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 21:45 | comment | added | PipperChip | @RAndomDSdevel This sounds like the makings of a new question; "What would a clone NOT have that the original creature does?" Or "What aspects of a person does DNA not control?" Anyways, there are "memory" cells in an individual's immune system which are independent of their DNA (and epigenetic code). | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 19:55 | vote | accept | RandomDSdevel | ||
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 13:17 | comment | added | RandomDSdevel | Yeah, I was going to use the restoration of the main character's brain as a mechanism for him to retain his trained skills and at least the notions of muscle memory and balance (these could be recovered through physical therapy, right?) As for continuity of configuration for this guy's immune system, though, wouldn't that kind of thing be encoded in his epigenetic code? | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | PipperChip | @RandomDSdevel It's not just that, but things like muscle memory, balance, or even trained skills. (And other things like inexperienced autoimmune systems.) The new body may need some getting-used-to, but you can argue a brain in the correct configuration "fixes" most of these. | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 22:40 | comment | added | RandomDSdevel | Any of the diseases which you mentioned will probably work; the difficulties you mentioned are probably irrelevant in the shared setting in which I'm placing my story. It's far enough in the future that biotechnological science have developed to the point where genetic anomalies can easily be detected and corrected. It might be biologically safer and easier plot-wise to use a non-genetic disorder, though. As for concerns that the clone resulting from the process might have at least partial amnesia, that's what the brain scans are for, right? | |
| Nov 11, 2014 at 22:25 | history | answered | PipperChip | CC BY-SA 3.0 |