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...have featured supple amounts of nubile flesh. If that’s all I was after I would just watch “Cherry Falls” or “I Know What You Did Last Summer” or straight-to-video gems like “Frankenfish.”The missing link is all that wonderful psychosexual craziness—that sense of uncanny terror—and most all the creepy feeling that the screen is acting out repressed fears and desires you didn’t know you had. You could take everyone?...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fill Me With Your Demon Seed | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...this biological magic by injecting a protein extracted from jellyfish into the fertilized eggs of rice fish. He also uses a protein from coral to make fish glow a vibrant reddish pink. Opponents of genetic engineering fear that these creatures could crossbreed with wild species, creating glowing schools of Frankenfish. To keep them from spreading their shining DNA, the distributor, Taikong International, sterilizes them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Light And Dark | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...discussed the work of our company in your story "Make Way for Frankenfish!" While the article was balanced, the headline was inflammatory. The word Frankenfood and its derivatives were coined by those avowedly opposed to any application of the new technology to food products. The use of prejudicial words is an attempt to instill fear rather than promote reasoned discussion. Gene modification has the potential to be one of the most important and beneficial tools to increase the quantity and nutritional value of food. In the case of A/F Protein's AquAdvantage fish, which reaches adult size in half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...looking forward to reeling in a 50-lb. lunker right out of my backyard pond. I say, Bring on the Frankenfish! LUCAS A. SCHLEMMER Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...people at a time when fish stocks are perilously low. But as you might expect, some critics are carping. They consider the supersalmon a biological time bomb that could destroy the remaining natural salmon populations and wreak other environmental havoc. To them, the supersalmon is nothing less than a "Frankenfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Way for Frankenfish! | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

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