From: Reggie [rqlii@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 06 April, 1998 19:08 To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Genetic Engineering... in news ---"Heck, Joseph F." wrote: > > > April 2, 1998 > > Web posted at: 4:50 PM EST (1650 GMT) > > > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scientist in New York has applied for a > > patent > > on a process for making creatures that would be part human and part > > animal, the Washington Post reported Thursday. > > > > It said Stuart Newman, a cellular biologist at New York Medical Center > > in Valhalla, did not want to make the creatures -- but wanted to stop > > anyone else from making them. > > > > There are patents on such creatures, known as chimeras. What message > > Newman is worried about is a technique for growing a chimera from > > human > > and animal embryo cells. > > > > His technique, described in the science journal Nature, would involve > > mixing human cells with the cells of an animal -- perhaps a > > chimpanzee, > > which is closely related genetically. > This is how it always starts. Small at 1st, Eugenics wars later. ]:) Daque "I should move to a remote bomb-shelter in Oregon" Kendall _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heck, Joseph F. [HeckJ@missouri.edu] Sent: Monday, 06 April, 1998 16:23 To: 'blue_planet@MPGN.COM' Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Genetic Engineering... in news > April 2, 1998 > Web posted at: 4:50 PM EST (1650 GMT) > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A scientist in New York has applied for a > patent > on a process for making creatures that would be part human and part > animal, the Washington Post reported Thursday. > > It said Stuart Newman, a cellular biologist at New York Medical Center > in Valhalla, did not want to make the creatures -- but wanted to stop > anyone else from making them. > > There are patents on such creatures, known as chimeras. What message > Newman is worried about is a technique for growing a chimera from > human and animal embryo cells. > > His technique, described in the science journal Nature, would involve > mixing human cells with the cells of an animal -- perhaps a > chimpanzee, which is closely related genetically. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Pnzr7 [Pnzr7@aol.com] Sent: Monday, 06 April, 1998 23:02 To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Genetic Engineering... in news I hate too say it, but when those scientests in Scotland first told the world about their cloning experiments the unleashed the genie. Now everybody including the-less-than-knowledgable Congress are attemping too put it back. Did not we learn anything from Trinity? Just a thought. Tom Fisher *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.