----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Graeme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: First synthetic lifeform
| This is the coolest part:
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| The researchers chose to put the new technology into the public domain for
| all scientists to use. It will appear in the next few weeks on the Web site
| of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
| The technology raises safety issues, says David Magnus of Stanford's Center
| for Biomedical Ethics. Even putting it in the public domain is "a
| double-edged sword," he says. That presumes that allowing everyone access
| will keep the good guys ahead of the bad guys. "It's a gamble. ... It's a
| bet that everyone has a stake in," he says.
|
| ---
|
| -Kevin
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "jon hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:47 PM
| Subject: First synthetic lifeform
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| > http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-13-new-life-usat_x.htm
| >
| > --
| > jon
| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| >
| >
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