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Posted - 2003.08.14 12:04:00 -
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The Jove Disease is basically a genetic flaw. In their quest for perfection they overlooked something and generations later the symptom started to appear.
The disease thus lay dormant within every Jove. What brings it from its dormant state to the actual disease is not known yet, but the symptoms are clear. The Jove will suffer a deep depression that will gradually grow worse until the subjectÆs body simply gives up.
The following explanation to the disease and the problem with it is cure is an assumption made by non Jove geneticist like me, and may not be fact. The lack of information leaves much to speculation:
The problem of the disease is assumed to be that it is a complex relation between genetics and the psyche. We are not talking a finding a mere gene that makes you predisposed for the disease. His would be fairly easy. It seems that the fundamental change they made to the human genome has created an instability that sometimes manifests itself in the psyche. So a to find the cure you would have to study Jovian life and society to try and fix the psychological factors that makes some Joves develop the disease. Then you have to link these factors to the psyche and the physical layout of the Jove brain. That in time could bring us to an understanding of what the true nature of the instability is in the genome.
I hope this helps you to better understand.
Regards,
Qual
Head of R&D, Cornexant Corporation
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Posted - 2003.08.14 18:34:00 -
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Edited by: Qual on 14/08/2003 18:34:47
With all due respect Rhianna, you fail to understand one very important thing that makes your statements completely invalid:
The Jove Disease is heredetary and thus not infectious.
Cross-breeding seems the only way the disease could be transfered to non Jovians, and I have no records of that ever happening. Most likely its imossible due to the great differences between the normal human genome and the Jove genome.
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Posted - 2003.08.14 19:27:00 -
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Edited by: Qual on 14/08/2003 19:27:31
The only way for the disease to affect us or rather our descendants would be if there was a successful mating between a non-Jove and a Jove. Even then the disease would only affect the descendants of those.
But as stated I do not believe that is even possible.
As for turning the disease into a weapon? Well, that is just nonsense. This kind of disease canÆt be used as a weapon. How would you? To replicate its effect you would have to make a weapon capable of doing something resembling genetic therapy on the whole body of the target. And after that you would have to wait for days, months, years, if ever(!) for the effect to show. So let us drop the paranoid propaganda shall we? This will NEVER be a weapon.
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Posted - 2003.08.16 18:09:00 -
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If that happens to include the body of Ouria, please contact me, ASAP.
Regards,
Qual
Head of Research, Cornexant Inc.
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Posted - 2003.08.17 07:25:00 -
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Interesting.
Of course this build on the theory that the disease is "simple", that is to to say a normal hereditary disease bound to a specific gene sequence.
If it where that easy the Joves whould have found a cure millenias ago.
This sound more like a way for my esteemed collegues at the Caldari Military Genetics Institute to get huge money grants...
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