From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 00:41:30 MDT
Extropes,
Thanks, Anders.
I'm astonished that no one has commented on this
development. This is huge. Doesn't this make
germline engineering 'easy'? Doesn't this sudden
quantum leap to 'easiness' at least ***suggest*** that
all the fuss about the problems with cloning is more
myopic arrogance and cultural prejudices (from the
political establishment, the scientific establishment,
the technophobic, and religious ooga booga crowd) and
first-try-technological clumsiness/primitiveness, than
technical infeasibility, or even difficulty?
As my boy Ray says: "Everything's hard till you know
how to do it."
After which it becomes easy, not to mention obvious.
Jeff Davis
--- Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se> wrote:
> Here is something for our gene hackers: a simple way
> of making transgene
> animals:
>
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992950
>
> Genetically-modified animals can be created simply
> by washing sperm,
> swishing it in a centrifuge with an additional gene,
> and using the
> altered sperm for artificial insemination, say
> Italian researchers.
>
> Original article in current PNAS.
>
> --
>
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> Anders Sandberg
> Towards Ascension!
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