From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Oct 24 2002 - 04:39:36 MDT
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I'm astonished that no one has commented on this development. This is
It went smack to transhumantech, and to a few of my friends.
> huge. Doesn't this make germline engineering 'easy'? Doesn't this
Absolutely.
> 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
Uh, what has cloning to do with germline engineering? You know, the
old-fashioned sperm/ova business vs. taking a random differentiated adult
cell? Given that we can't reset the genome (the microarray activity shows
wrong activity pattern, most clones get spontaneously aborted, have high
mortality, multiple aberrancies and die early) properly yet.
> establishment, the technophobic, and religious ooga booga crowd) and
> first-try-technological clumsiness/primitiveness, than technical
> infeasibility, or even difficulty?
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