If the person would have chosen adeno-asssociated virus instead of adenovirus, that shouldn't led to necrosis and should (in theory) be perfectly safe, right?
Only problem will be, skin cells renew very often. After, say, 4 weeks there will hardly be GFP marked cells anymore because they got replaced by stem cells. Or are the stem cells in reach to be transfected too? Then it would be a permanent tatoo.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:00:38 PM UTC+1, Cathal Garvey (Phone) wrote:
-- Only problem will be, skin cells renew very often. After, say, 4 weeks there will hardly be GFP marked cells anymore because they got replaced by stem cells. Or are the stem cells in reach to be transfected too? Then it would be a permanent tatoo.
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 8:00:38 PM UTC+1, Cathal Garvey (Phone) wrote:
Also, I have seen a phonecam shot of an alleged GFP "tattoo" where someone jabbed themselves with an Adenoviral gfp vector. I say "Alleged" because I can't imagine that working for more than an hour or so before going necrotic from immune rejection.Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 30, 2013 10:10 PM, "Patrik D'haeseleer" <pat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I bet it's only a matter of time before someone tries to give themselves a GFP tattoo with a gene gun though...
>That's already started happening, at least academically:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855251/
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