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...what's next? Is Harvard University going to sue every person in the world with the surname "Harvard" so as to prevent them from someday starting their own "Harvard School...
...ANDi's close kinship to humans that makes this experiment at once so promising and so troubling. On one hand, the ability to manipulate the genes of a creature so similar to humans could give researchers an incredibly powerful tool for studying and perhaps someday curing human illnesses--introducing Alzheimer's genes, for example, to test new drugs and vaccines against the disease. For that reason, says Richard Weleber, a professor of ophthalmology at Oregon Health Sciences University who believes the research could help cure the form of blindness known as macular degeneration, "this is a revolutionary achievement...
...scientists in Oregon have taken a tiny step toward doing what many scientists have said no scientist would ever want to do--use genetics to change, improve or enhance our children. Sticking genes into eggs and growing a healthy monkey means that someday scientists could and most likely would insert genes into human eggs to try to make kids smarter, stronger, faster, healthier or happier than their parents...
...opposite end of the technology scale, Eldrid Sequeira, a Utah State University graduate student, is designing microscopic "submarines"--drug-bearing capsules that someday could be propelled through the bloodstream by bacteria to attack disease. Looking even further ahead for alternative means of driving these tiny craft, he is considering building biomotors 100 billionths of a meter wide that would use only the bacteria's hairlike, propelling flagella to move ahead...
Equally remarkable, Langer and his colleagues reported in the journal Nature that they had engineered a prototype microchip that could someday be swallowed or implanted and work as a programmable "pharmacy." It contains up to 1,000 tiny reservoirs of chemicals that are released in the proper quantity and sequence when the chip is exposed to low voltages...