Merck chose adenovirus, a very serious common cold that can be defanged through genetic manipulation.
Before inking the research deal with Sangamo, Dow Agro scientists evaluated other, more widely studied genetic manipulation technologies.
Are you saying that genetic manipulation can kill people in the same way?
And WADA has already put a blanket ban on genetic manipulation in place.
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And the world's leading industrialised states struggle to set up international bodies that will regulate everything from internet protocols to the genetic manipulation of food.
These days, he is preoccupied with such issues as pollution and genetic manipulation: the vanishing dodo in his Dodon't is a comment on DNA disaster.
In an attack on genetic manipulation, he said man now lives as if God did not exist, and claimed the Creator's right to interfere in the mystery of human life.
With the fundamental tools of genetic manipulation tools that had cost millions of dollars not 10 years earlier dropping precipitously in price, the crowd-sourced design of biological agents was just the next logical step.
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Already we have seen the nihilistic yet impeccably democratic result of such contemporary legislation involving life itself, such as the Dutch laws that legalise various drugs, prostitution, same-sex marriage, euthanasia and genetic manipulation.
Estimates of the number of dead run to the hundreds of millions world-wide and scores of millions in the U.S. If nature fails to deliver an epidemic, it is unfortunately easy for a highly trained terrorist, by genetic manipulation, to create a super-virulent pathogen with a nearly 100% rate of mortality.
The genetic-control question that scares people most, however, is germ-line manipulation or, in tabloid parlance, designer babies.
But the cells from the first divisions retain the ability to form entire new embryos themselves. (This is how identical twins form.) Germ-line manipulation would require taking some of these early-embryonic cells apart in order to discover what the genetic lottery had delivered to them (a process that would destroy the cells in question).
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