If there are widespread negative effects, one cannot even trust the media, or anyone else to report it accurately.
This is scary as shite to me, and there is no WAY I'm putting this into my body. A disease with a 99.9....something survival rate, and excellent theraputics, a vaccine is unnecessary, imo, and is not in my future. I also don't take kindly to people telling me what I will put into my body.
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Recombinant DNA (
rDNA) molecules are
DNA molecules formed by laboratory methods of
genetic recombination (such as
molecular cloning) that bring together genetic material from multiple sources, creating
sequences that would not otherwise be found in the
genome.
Recombinant DNA is the general name for a piece of DNA that has been created by combining at least two fragments from two different sources. Recombinant DNA is possible because DNA molecules from all organisms share the same chemical structure, and differ only in the
nucleotide sequence within that identical overall structure. Recombinant DNA molecules are sometimes called
chimeric DNA, because they can be made of material from two different species, like the mythical
chimera. R-DNA technology uses
palindromic sequences and leads to the production of
sticky and blunt ends.
The DNA sequences used in the construction of recombinant DNA molecules can originate from any
species. For example, plant DNA may be joined to bacterial DNA, or human DNA may be joined with fungal DNA. In addition, DNA sequences that do not occur anywhere in nature may be created by the
chemical synthesis of DNA, and incorporated into recombinant molecules. Using recombinant DNA technology and synthetic DNA, literally any DNA sequence may be created and introduced into any of a very wide range of living organisms.
Proteins that can result from the expression of recombinant DNA within living cells are termed
recombinant proteins. When recombinant DNA encoding a protein is introduced into a host organism, the recombinant protein is not necessarily produced.
[1] Expression of foreign proteins requires the use of specialized expression vectors and often necessitates significant restructuring by foreign coding sequences.
[2]
Recombinant DNA differs from genetic recombination in that the former results from artificial methods in the test tube, while the latter is a normal biological process that results in the remixing of existing DNA sequences in essentially all organisms."