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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Does anyone know if this glow-in-the-dark gene gets
passed on to it's offspring? I would assume so. Imagine the interest that
children will suddenly have in genetics when they can breed yellow glo-fish with
maybe a red glo-fish and get some red, yellow, and orange glo-fish.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And what of those glowing teenagers? Will they mate
and give birth to glo-babies? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This could have serious implications for the
military. What if all 18 yr old men decided to glow in the dark? Night
engagements could get really risky > :-P</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=gpmap@runbox.com href="mailto:gpmap@runbox.com">Giu1i0 Pri5c0</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=hit@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:hit@yahoogroups.com">hit</A> ; <A title=extropy-chat@extropy.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:24
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [extropy-chat] More on the
Glofish: When Fish Fluoresce,Can Teenagers Be Far Behind?</DIV>
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<DIV>From the <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/science/02ESSA.html">New York
Times</A>: Sometime in the future, when the distinction between cosmetologist
and molecular biologist has faded and gene shops dot the seedier urban streets
like tattoo parlors, the philosophers, moralists and historians of science
will try to pin down the moment when the new age began. Science historians
will probably say it started with the discovery of DNA, or the mapping of the
human genome. Others will claim it started when Dolly was cloned and it became
clear that the tools of biotechnology had moved out of the high church of pure
research and into the unpredictable hands of people who bred sheep for profit.
<BR>I think the moment is now. And the creature that embodies the escape of
biotechnology into the world at large - a movement that will never be reversed
- is an aquarium fish that glows in the dark. This is the tipping point, when
the world irrevocably turns toward the science-fiction fantasies of writers
like Philip K. Dick and William Gibson, who envision biomedical technology
permeating every corner of the marketplace, from global corporations on down
to small-time illegal operations like stolen-car chop shops. Imagine if you
will, that you could pay to have genes for glowing in the dark inserted into
your own body. How many glowing teenagers would there be? And who would stop
them, once they reached age 18? After all, one's own body is one's own
business.</DIV>
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