Complementary DNA (cDNA) is this the future of cannabis plant patents?

[shaggyballs]

Complementary DNA (cDNA)

Also called messenger RNA.

Since the cDNA is a man-made molecule that is chemically distinct from natural DNA, it has been deemed by the US Supreme Court in Myriad to be patent eligible.

Is this just making a replica of currenly known DNA sequences?
This is a new subject for me so all comments welcome.

 

[troutman]

RNA is not DNA!

DNA codes for RNA which eventual leads to proteins being made.

This may help you understand things.

https://science-explained.com/theory/dna-rna-and-protein/

 

[shaggyballs]

Well thanks for the very cool video troutman!
But somehow I think I did not grasp the whole concept here.
It is a lot to take in...

Recent Patents in RNA Silencing in Plants: Constructs, Methods and Applications in Plant Biotechnology

Abstract:
RNA silencing is a recently discovered mechanism to regulate gene expression at transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels. It is based on the recognition and methylation of target genes or cleavage of target mRNAs by small RNA molecules, with length varying from 21 to 24 nucleotides. RNA silencing plays an important role modulating most of the important cell processes, such as growth, development or stress response. During the past few years, diverse strategies have been applied to exploit RNA silencing as a tool to create plants with enhanced economical properties or able to cope with pathogens or abiotic stress. This review describes the most important patents related to RNA silencing in plants, which disclose vectors designed to induce RNA silencing by hairpin RNAs, amplicons or virus-based plasmids, methods for detection and quantification of silencing as well as general uses in plant biotechnology.

 

[troutman]

I've learned some of this genetics stuff in a biochemistry book a long time ago.

Science is a wonderful thing that more people should dig into.

More so now with in the crazy World we live in.

 

[shaggyballs]

So could you take DNA, get it to produce RNA and modify the RNA to double the production of the THC synthesis gene?

 

[troutman]

So could you take DNA, get it to produce RNA and modify the RNA to double the production of the THC synthesis gene?

You would have to know the gene that produces the reaction you want. Then that genetic strand
would have to be created and inserted into the living organism using restriction enzymes and
DNA ligase.

Check this page and the links on the left side and you'll understand more about DNA modifications.

DNA cloning

Just because an organism has a gene for something doesn't mean
it will produce what it's coded for without the proper stimulus.

For example: Most people have a brain.

But some people don't know how to use it.

 

[shaggyballs]

So it would seem they are sequencing RNA too.

a high-resolution data set that clearly marks both the genes of each strain and their end products.

I think they are putting a watermark so to speak on the RNA.
Is this correct?

 

[troutman]

So it would seem they are sequencing RNA too.

a high-resolution data set that clearly marks both the genes of each strain and their end products.

I think they are putting a watermark so to speak on the RNA.
Is this correct?

All organisms make both DNA and RNA.

RNA could be used if they use a reverse transcriptase enzyme to change the host's DNA.

That's how some retroviruses like HIV and Hepatitis B work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrovirus

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