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Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:12 PM

Resurrecting Mammoths Gets One Step Closer

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Posted By: buddaman71 (November 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM)

Of course the Plague never went away....we just invented antibacterials...

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Posted By: JoplinBob (November 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM)

What a stupid idea.  Sequencing genomes is not a bad thing, but then the cloning begins, and where will that stop?  Maybe we should sequence the Bubonic plague genome, so some idiot can clone that.  THIMK!

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Posted By: PhilippeDoucette (November 19, 2008 at 7:59 PM)

It is only a matter of time before the far Right chimes in and tries to outlaw “Playing God”.  Being able to sequence DNA into a particular life form implies that any sequence could be given life.  Designer pets and meat farms would soon follow.  Perhaps Blade Runner is the movie coming true, not Jurassic Park.

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