The local shaman to cure different diseases ojé's milk, ginger, cloves, and many other natural products coming to perform rituals with ayahuasca even if necessary. In 1999, three molecular biologists traveled to the Peruvian Amazon to try to get biomolecular data in sessions organized by an Indian shaman. Canadian anthropologist Jeremy Narby presents the hechos.Los three molecular biologists had no prior knowledge of ayahuasca shamanism or the Amazon, although they were interested in alternative medicine and traditional shamanism in general. Their ages were between thirty and sixty years: the first was a scientist of a U.S. company of genetics, the second was a French university professor and researcher at the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS) and the third was a teacher at a Swiss university and director of a laboratory investigación.Ninguno of the three scientists spoke Castilian and indigenous ayahuasca spoke neither English nor French, so I served them as an interpreter. The first thing worth highlighting is that scientists and the shaman held long conversations. The shaman had studied plants and ayahuasca for thirty-seven, and for several days and responded to questions of the biologists. I also do evening sessions with ayahuasca, with the participation of the three researchers, who had numerous visions, such as DNA molecules and cromosomas.La American biologist who worked regularly in deciphering the human genome, said he had seen a chromosome from the perspective of a protein flying a long strand of DNA. Vio DNA sequences, known as CpG islands, which had brought him headlong into his work, and who are in more than 60% of all human genes. He saw that they had a structure different from the surrounding DNA, and that this particular structure allowed them to be easily accessible and, thus, can serve as "landing pads" for transcription proteins, that bind to DNA molecules and make precise copies of gene sequences. He said the idea that the structure of the CpG islands allow them to act as landing pads had not ever happened before in the head, and that genetic research may soon verify this hipótesis.El French teacher had studied the spermatic cord animals for several years, first in lizards and then in mice. When a sperm from the testicles and the spermatic cord enters is still unable to fertilize an egg, since it only becomes fertile after having toured the cord, where they serve about 50 different types of proteins. He and his team had spent years trying to find out what makes fertile sperm protein, which could have implications for developing a male contraceptive. Thus, in one session with ayahuasca posed three questions. First: Is there a particular protein that makes fertile sperm? Second, why was not possible to find the answer to that question after years of research? And third: was the mouse the appropriate model for studying male fertility? The answers will come through a voice that appeared in his visions. In response to the first question, the voice said: "No, not a particular protein. In this body are proteins more important than others, but that the various proteins must interact together to achieve fertility. " To the second question answered, "I answered the first question." And the third question he said: "This question is not important enough to respond to it. The answer can be found without the help of ayahuasca. Try to work in another direction. "Swiss scientist wanted to ask about the ethical nature of the modification of plant genomes. I actually wanted to know whether it was appropriate to add genes to plants to make them resistant to disease. As it happens, that snuff is important for plant genetic researchers to the shamans of the Amazon. Shamans of many Indian tribes claim to speak on their visions with the "mother of snuff", that is the essence of the plant. Thus, the biologist said that in the course of a session induced by ayahuasca talk to an entity that the shaman later identified as the mother of snuff. This entity was informed that the fundamental role of snuff is to serve all living beings. He also said that manipulation of the genome of snuff was not a problem while the plant itself could develop its role in an appropriate environment while the plant and agree with this environment. The biologist also said that he had displayed a dazzling plant growing in a desert thanks to an extra gene that made it resistant to drought. Emerged from this experience having learned that genetic manipulation should be assessed case by case basis, so as to take into account the will of the scientist as the way in which GM plants would be used in society.