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To: furball4paws
This section caught my eye.

Rather than randomly altering a few genes in a cell's DNA as in old-school genetic engineering, some researchers are now breaking genomes into collections of parts and precisely reassembling them to do a scientist's bidding. The fruits of the approach are taking many different forms: bacteria that can count or form patterns in a petri dish, a virus redesigned to make its genes easier to study, microbes programmed to seek out and destroy tumors, and bacteria that spit out great quantities of a rare and complicated bogus argument for ID and against evolution (The Fesbrew Chugator bacteria).

5 posted on 12/14/2005 12:42:01 PM PST by Thatcherite (F--ked in the afterlife, bullying feminized androgenous automaton euro-weenie blackguard)
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To: Thatcherite

Now you're going to imply that the authors actually said that last bit.


7 posted on 12/14/2005 2:17:40 PM PST by furball4paws (The new elixir of life - dehydrated toad urine.)
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To: Thatcherite
"(The Fesbrew Chugator bacteria)."

The correct name is Festus Chugabacter, you need to read the peer-reviewed literature first hand instead of counting on the press release to get it right. :)
9 posted on 12/14/2005 3:29:36 PM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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