On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Duncan Frissell wrote:
> How about a tailored virus that modifies your DNA on a rotating basis in
> non significant fashion so that you're constantly "new". I wonder if
> that would be theoretically possible? Fun times.
You would have to do it to the 'junk' and 'long term unused' portions
(ie introns), I doubt it would work with exons. There's also the issue of
timing. Using a virus it would be hard to hit all the cells at one time.
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