If we can enhance bacteria to make insulin then can we enhance them to make cells that aren't their own. ex. instead of bacteria producing insulin the bacterium would split to produce the cell that makes insulin instead.

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Tim the human boy Sat Oct 18 16:35:24 2014 No.6821722 [Reply] [Original]

If we can enhance bacteria to make insulin then can we enhance them to make cells that aren't their own. ex. instead of bacteria producing insulin the bacterium would split to produce the cell that makes insulin instead.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 16:49:18 2014 No.6821741 >>6821722 No, and why would you want to?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 18 20:43:39 2014 No.6822046 Can't just turn a bacterium into a eukaryotic cell. We do what you're describing with stem cells.

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