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...Federal Government is currently spending $3 billion trying to map all human DNA. Do you agree or disagree with this use of taxpayer dollars...
Should the police be allowed to collect DNA information from suspected criminals, as they currently do with fingerprints...
...good or a bad idea for the FBI to create a DNA database with information gathered from suspected criminals and crime scenes throughout the country...
...recognizes that the world is not waiting for him. "I'll be devastated if someone else does it first," he says. "But I'll get over it. I'd rather see somebody do it than nobody." That way, at least, Seed could pursue his next project--reprogramming DNA to achieve immortality--which he sees as the all-important successor to cloning. So here's a conundrum: Which would be stranger, a world full of Richard Seeds, or a world in which Seed never goes away...
...French Anderson and R. Michael Blaese extracted T cells from Ashi and exposed them to mouse leukemia viruses into which human ADA genes had been spliced. The viruses, which the researchers had rendered harmless by removing all their genes, invaded the T cells and burrowed into their DNA, carrying the ADA gene with them. Finally, a billion or so of Ashi's T cells, many of them now outfitted with a functioning ADA gene, were dripped back into her veins. Four months later, the NIH team performed the same therapy on another ADA-deficient girl, Cindy Cutshall, 9, from Canton...