Find your heritage, by sending the DNA for some laboratory and the advantage of the genetic engineering.

Kimmo Huosionmaa

On the Internet have been many times the commercial, that any person can find out their heritage, and where their parents are coming from. This seems very interesting, but sometimes I must remember the worlds "there are no free lunches", what my teachers always repeated in my school. Of course, those tests and laboratories can track tour parents and say are you from Russian or Italy.


By the way, the DNA doesn't tell about where your parents are coming from, that thing will only tell the ethnic background of particular people. The nationality of the person is different than the ethnic background. DNA will tell more about us than we even want to know. It will tell do we have some hereditary illnesses and if the laboratory wants, it can track our biological parents. The DNA will tell the scientists how intelligent we are, and this might be the very frightening thing for some persons.


When we are looking at the use of that information to track the criminals, we must know, that if some murderer has children, the DNA can be used to track that person. The half of the DNA comes from the father and another half is from the mother. And this information can be used to make the bloodline to the criminal. The PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) what will multiply the DNA, and able to transfer that molecule in another cell makes the cloning of the "most capable persons" possible.


But when we are talking about genetics and the PCR, we must understand that the nanotechnology will give us the ultimate tool to manipulate our genomes. The tool is artificial RNA retrovirus, what can transfer our body any part of the genome in the human body. Retroviruses will modify our genomes all the time, and by use of nanotechnology, we can create "Einstein virus", what will transfer to another person the part of the DNA, what makes Einstein so intelligent and capable scientist.


Separation process of that bite of DNA would happen by systematically compiling the genomes of the respected scientists, and finding the sequences, what will simultaneous repeating in those persons DNA. If those persons are not coming from the same families, that will help the scientists to locate the DNA-sequence, what makes them so fine scientists.


This might be one way to increase the human race, but also the DNA can use as cloning the persons, and when we will begin the "utopist" way to think, we might take the top sportsman in the world, and clone this person for the commercial purposes. DNA is a strange thing, the molecule, what can copy itself. It is in every cell in our body. It makes our so individual, because of the difference of the genetic code and the order of the base. The DNA-molecule is working like the computer program, but it is in the chemical form.


So in the distant future, we might use artificial DNA to store the normal data like pictures and texts in the places, where will ever be any physiological or chemical disturbing. And one of those places is the far away from the Earth. At the Kuiper Belt, there will be no radiation and the temperature is extremely low, And it will make possible to store the information in the satellites in the form of the DNA.


In some sci-fi-horror movies can be possible that this kind of thing will land to the earth, and injects the viruses in some person. The thing, what is used for injection might be some artificial bug.  Those viruses would transfer another species to humans if our civilization could be destroyed. This might be the future of genetic engineering, and the shape of the virus can make the human possibility to travel between stars.