Merck chose adenovirus, a very serious common cold that can be defanged through genetic manipulation.

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Before inking the research deal with Sangamo, Dow Agro scientists evaluated other, more widely studied genetic manipulation technologies.

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Are you saying that genetic manipulation can kill people in the same way?

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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.

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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.

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The genetic-control question that scares people most, however, is germ-line manipulation or, in tabloid parlance, designer babies.

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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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