Exam period... Everybody is doing crazy things.. Like Kenni. Smsing me at 2.45 am this morning asking me to go study. Adrian talking to himself while doing his revision. And Keith blogging at this time... Well no la, studying and sleeping at the same time, doing dumb stuff and now posting this crazy thing:
Biochem project:
Tanning for food
Our group has come out with the idea of altering our DNA such that we will be able to photosynthesis like plant. Consumption of food nowadays faced two major problems. First, the problem of increasing shortage of food due to the demand exceeding the supply; which is worsened by the predicted increase in world population. Second, the moral problem of animals’ rights. The two problems can be solved by our group’s idea of DNA modification.
Plants are able to produce food due to photosynthesis centre in their cells. We plan to extract chloroplast DNA from plant cells and introduce the DNA into human skin stem cells. The DNA will be coached to transcript and translate into functional chloroplast. The chloroplast will hence able to provide a steady source of food for human body. Being introduced into stem cells ensures that chloroplast will be available in rest of the cells arising from the cell line, since chloroplast has the ability to replicate by itself. In additional, the chloroplast will serve to screen our cells from harmful UV lights which may cause cancer, this will help to reduce skin cancer rate.
Another Biochem project:
Our group has come out with an idea which will be definitely hilarious and useful, in our group’s opinion. Nowadays women are stepping it up by leaving their home and enter the workforce to bring home some dough to contribute to the family. Having to juggle both their career and family has proved to be a demanding task and many men have taken up the role of being a “house daddy.” They have a fair share of taking care of the household and the children. But a real father would have to be capable of nursing the child from an infant.
Due to the physical shortcomings of the physiological make up of the men, our group has decided to tap into genetic manipulation to allow men to have fully functional and yet controllable lactating breast to help to share the burden and joy of nursing their own flesh and blood. After reading through a few articles, we realized that lactating men were observed before. Scientist and doctors attribute this trait to hormonal imbalance or stress. Instead of having to subject our men to drugs and stress, we hope to tailor their genes such that our men will get chiseled yet functional lactating chest. This will allow men to have well built body and retaining their pride whilst along side their partners sharing the joy of nursing their child.
Here’s an abstract on male lactation:
"Male Lactation" by Professor Patty Stuart Macadam of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto (Compleat Mother, Fall, 1996, Volume 43).
It is possible, and has been observed in animals and humans. In 1992, 18 Dayak fruit bats were captured from a rainforest in the Krau Game Reserve, Pahang, Malaysia. Of the 10 mature males captured, each had functional mammary glands from which small amounts of milk were expressed. A breast is a breast. Male lactation is physiologically possible and, according to Dr. Robert Greenblatt, production in males can be stimulated by letting a baby suckle for several weeks. Indeed some human males secrete milk at birth and at puberty.Historically, male lactation was noted by the German explorer Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt prior to 1859, who wrote of a 32-year-old man who breastfed his child for five months. It was also observed in a 55-year-old Baltimore man who had been the wetnurse of the children of his mistress.
Crazy stuff in a crazy world.
Thank you Lord for Your unfailing love and protection.
Let me bring You glory with my exams Lord.
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