Word: dna
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...this excitement about genetics, will we forget that we are much more than is written in our DNA?" he asked. "We shall not learn about the human spirit or what love is by studying the DNA molecule. Scientists sometimes run the risk of feeding into a very mechanical view of biology...
...this excitement about genetics, will we forget that we are much more than is written in our DNA?" he asked. "We shall not learn about the human spirit or what love is by studying the DNA molecule. Scientists sometimes run the risk of feeding into a very mechanical view of biology...
...chairman of a mutual-funds company, promising his wife Nanette Sexton Bailey $20,000 a month in alimony should he cheat. His now estranged wife is using an unusual method to prove the infidelity: she had the sheets she believed her husband had soiled with another woman tested for DNA...
...could also lead to the cloning of special rescue dogs and endangered canids like the Ethiopian wolf and African wild dog. At the A&M labs, a picture of Missy's cheerful mug hangs over the micromanipulator, where technicians inject her genetic code into eggs from donors whose own DNA is of no particular interest to anyone. The biggest problem is getting eggs. Because dogs randomly go into heat only every six months to a year, there's a lot of waiting for one of the lab's 50 dogs to enter estrus. Last week a bitch named Betsy caused...
Despite the lack of a canine breakthrough, dog owners are the biggest clients of Genetic Savings & Clone, a commercial spin-off of Missyplicity that offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning for $895 plus $100 annual storage. A white canister--which looks like an Artoo Detoo unit--is already full of hundreds of trays containing genetic material from cats and dogs, with a few prized horses and cattle nestled in the whirling eddies of subzero liquid nitrogen...