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IdentiGEN's traceback system starts with a small DNA sample taken from an animal carcass while it is still intact. The sample is stored in a computer database, and from that point on, at any step in the distribution process, another sample can be taken from any product to confirm its origins. The entire process costs one half of 1% of the value of the animal, according to Cunningham. If cloned-animal DNA were made publicly available (cloners now keep DNA information proprietary), Cunningham says he could trace a single steak back to an individual cloned steer in less than...
...should be an alarm bell for all those who want to fight terror. And it's not because of the threat of suicide bombers, it is because the people are not taking interest. They know the problem will remain. You know it's like the story of the dead carcass of an animal that fell into the village well. The villagers ask the local wise man how do you purify the waters, and he says take out 40 buckets of water. Still the water was polluted, so he said take out another 40 buckets. It didn't make a difference...
...morticians are already poking at the carcass of Harvard’s political firmament, recently pronounced dead by a council of alumni of the Class of 1967. The coronary report seems to indicate a deadly tonic of apathy, greed, self-interest, and postmodern irony. But perhaps the biggest threat to Harvard’s political vibrancy isn’t lurking in the hallways of Bain Capital Group or in the sinister transmissions of Stephen Colbert. Perhaps the cause of death was not murder, but suicide. The guilty party? A group nominally committed to “engaging young people...
...marked the first time the Iowa front runner had singled out Huckabee for an attack. And that can mean only one thing: Romney is starting to worry about the former Arkansas Governor, whose sunny, underfinanced, overperforming presidential quest is generating buzz. "You never put the crosshairs on a dead carcass," Huckabee tells me. "Somebody sees me as a real wall mount, and that's a good thing." Antitax groups and conservative columnists have also begun criticizing Huckabee, mostly for the tax hikes he oversaw in Little Rock...
...faux dodo, according to Trimble, who manages the bird collection in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. And there it has stayed for the past hundred years, an avian imposter.But the bird lives on—in the genetic material Harvard researchers recently extracted from the London dodo carcass. Their analysis? Genetically speaking, “It’s basically a big fat pigeon,” said Berry, who co-authored the book “DNA: The Secret of Life” with genetics pioneer James D. Watson. “If we were to stick it into...