How Can I Preserve My Dna

[anikambrose]

HOW CAN I PRESERVE MY GRANDFATHERS DNA

[Baldric]

Don't go away, I'm sure someone with the right answer will be along soon ;o)

[fiction-factory]

Depends on how long you want to keep it ans whether you need regular access. For longer term storage you need extremely cold storage (like -160 C) and storage in Tris-EDTA or ethanol- or store it dried

[fiction-factory]

Is he still alive? If so don't store him in the way I suggested above - not yet anyway

[Prudie]

Have you tried vinegar in a Kilner jar?

[fiction-factory]

^remove the pickled onions first

[Old_Geezer]

Encapsulating in amber seems to work well.

[Atheist]

Anika, why would you want to? If you really do, you should ask for medical or scientific advice, not ask on AB. Best wishes.

[Old_Geezer]

Yiu can find folk with expertise here too.

Meanwhile I'm wondering if this is about the OP http://www.metrolyrics.com/im-my-own-grandpa-lyrics-ray-stevens.html

[Canary42]

I thought DNA lasted for ever - haven't scientists discovered stuff about prehistoric animals using DNA ?. Not that I'm suggesting your grandfather's a dinosaur ;-)

[tamborine]

hair, nails, teeth or a pedicure might gather enuf derma for dna

[Old_Geezer]

Not forever. The older stuff happened to be in conditions it stayed ok. Under the most ideal conditions, DNA can theoretically survive for a million years.

[Peter Pedant]

Pluck out a few hairs
that is pull and dont cut
put in a brown dry envelope
label envelope

the hair follicle roots have enough DNA for analysis

( and the mitochondria are clonal but that is a separate issue)

[Maydup]

I cant help but I am really curious to know what plans you have for his DNA.

[anikambrose]

@maydup i wanted to preserve my grandfathers DNA in a hope that someday in the future he could be brought back to life, you have already seen how science progressed in the last 90 years, so

[Hopkirk]

If he could be 'recreated' from his DNA it wouldn't be him. It would be another person with the same DNA.

We are partly a result of our DNA, and partly from our upbringing.

[waterboatman]

Nice thought anik, but it wouldn't work I'm afraid.

[fiction-factory]

>in a hope that someday in the future he could be brought back to life.

Interesting thought. Do you mean as a new born baby or as an old man or something else?

[Old_Geezer]

Identical twins have the same DNA but aren't the same person.

Much of someone is made up of their life experiences too. It affects how they think and act; the person that they are.

[anikambrose]

i want all of you to have a read in this website https://www.learning-mind.com/dna-memory-exists-and-keeps-our-ancestors-experiences/

there is something called dark DNA, if u know, science can do things beyound our thoughts , ...........im sad