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...other amendment, sponsored by Rep. Michael Synar (D-Ok.), would broaden the exemption for farmers, allowing them to market the patented animals and their offspring. They would still be prohibited, however, from marketing the sperm or embryo of these animals...
...problem, say critics, is not with a few altered lab mice, but with the broader commercial applications of gene-transplant technology. Theoretically, any gene could be inserted into any embryo. Scientists, for example, have already produced mice that manufacture human insulin. Until now, such animals have existed only in laboratories, not in the marketplace. Patenting them would change that. Critics are concerned that the potential to make millions of dollars on, say, animal-generated pharmaceuticals will drive biotech companies to produce generations of bizarre creatures whose release into nature could have unforeseen consequences...
...confirm their findings, the researchers must see whether inserting the TDF gene in a fertilized mouse egg will transform a female embryo into a male. If so, Goodfellow says, this knowledge may eventually enable researchers to predict and "program" sex ratios in livestock. But for now, talk about future applications pales next to the excitement of the discovery...
...from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a Cafe Royal dandy in embryo. Perhaps the main reason Demuth has not been seen in depth before is that some of the paintings that meant the most to him were not thought exhibitable. For Demuth was homosexual; not a flaming queen, in fact rather a discreet gay, but still loath to suppress his fantasies...
American neoclassicism was the style that marked the difference between the old regime and the new. When a cartoonist wanted to evoke the states of the embryo Republic, he drew them as classical columns standing together. The phrase the "federal pillars" was not just an empty cliche. Jefferson was not, of course, the only architect to act on such beliefs. In 1795 work began on Charles Bulfinch's new Massachusetts state house on Beacon Hill. The Old State House, built in 1712-13, had been the symbol of British power over Boston's economic life. Its site was tainted...