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Advances in Genetic Engineering

Posted by preimert1 10 years, 2 months ago to Science

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Some Chinese scientists have genetically re-engineered a monkey. Do you think one could ever be elected president?

SOURCE URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/review/524451/genome-surgery/?utm_campaign=newsletters&utm_source=newsletter-daily-all&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140211

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Posted by MikeMarotta 10 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for the link! (I do not know why someone gave you a Thumbs Down, but I pointed it back up to 1.) I highly recommend "Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life" by Marcus Wohlsen (Current Penguin, 2011) does for the next generation of homebrew science what Steven Levy’s Hacker’s Heroes of the Computer Revolution did for the previous transformation from a world based on industrial manufacturing to one dependent on information services. The next revolution will transform our inherited legacies into self-made potentials. (On my blog here:
http://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2012/...) I see a lot of these new inventions coming from "homebrew" (small lab; small clinic) outlets.The CVS drugstores now have over 100 in-store clinics. The biological revolution can run around, past, and through the mainstream of regulated healthcare, the same way that personal computing blossomed without "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs."

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  Posted by stargeezer 10 years, 2 months ago
  
  Perhaps it was the comment Mike. No it wasn't me. If I downcheck a comment I tell a person why, as you know ;) .
  
  There have several things being downchecked as of late that make no sense. Perhaps this is that too. I don't know if it's kids playing or somebody who has a real issue with the offering. It's sad that people will only stand up anonymously, it leaves you questioning their strength of convictions.
  
  To the OP. Nice find. The can of worms this potentially opens is a bit scary since nations that exercise no moral restraints just might start trying to build those "super soldiers" from the pages of si-fi. China could be one that would.
  
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