Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Dr. Moreau Phone Home: Your island work is alive and well in Milan, Italy, where they've put human genes in pig sperm. The hope is to provide pig organs for transplant that won't be rejected by the human body. It seems like there would be an awful lot of proteins to control for/alter to make this successful. Meanwhile the thought of human genes in the sperm of pigs is decidedly disquieting.

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