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Genetic engineering for hobbyists
« on: 2008-12-26 13:02:27 » |
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Hobbyists are trying genetic engineering at home
By MARCUS WOHLSEN (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
December 25, 2008 9:38 PM EST
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Quote:SAN FRANCISCO - The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.
Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering - a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories.
In her San Francisco dining room lab, for example, 31-year-old computer programmer Meredith L. Patterson is trying to develop genetically altered yogurt bacteria that will glow green to signal the presence of melamine, the chemical that turned Chinese-made baby formula and pet food deadly. |
full article at: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iRSS0kTpewoh8MnLmbxkQsCBWfUwD95A1Q8O0
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Re:Genetic engineering for hobbyists
« Reply #1 on: 2008-12-29 06:46:54 » |
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I just wanted to take this moment to say Holy Fuck! The great speciation event nears, and a potential explosion of variety driven not by random variation, but myriad human needs, wants, desires, and even whims, and written into the very programming language of life, DNA! Fire up those ebryonic stem cell labs, QUICKLY. Yes We Can!! 
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