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...Geneticist Barb McClintock, ignored for years, wins a Nobel
Other religious thinkers see no problem with a geneticist's manipulating DNA to eradicate dread diseases. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the only clergyman on the President's bioethics commission, did not sign last week's statement...
...disciplines has begun to converge. The mood was electric when 400 scientists gathered last month at the University of Chicago for the Bristol-Myers Symposium on Cancer Research. Researchers reeled off findings that the journals have not been able to keep up with. Said Conference Chairman Janet Rowley, a geneticist at the University of Chicago: "Ten years ago, few of us had any notion the progress would be so rapid, even explosive...
...Richard Finkelstein, a noted geneticist at the University of Missouri, recently argued in a letter to Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson that the experiment should be cancelled, one of a handful of protests by leading genetics experts of the planned experiment...
...same could not be said of Russia. "Rasputin took the empire by stopping the bleeding of the Tsarevich," the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane observed. Alas, the empire was hemorrhaging too, and the hypnotic Siberian peasant only exacerbated that wound...