X-Message-Number: 18929
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:31:16 -0700
From: "John Grigg" <>
Subject: Jumping genes & birthday


I found this fascinating article from Ray Kurzweil's website.  Think of the 
possibilities!!  Another wall to progress which appears to be soon coming down. 
: )

John


P.S. Today's my birthday(actually by the time you get this it will have been 
yesterday)!  I am my mother's "day after taxes" baby. : )  I am turning the big 
35!!  And in five years I will be forty! :O  How did this happen?  Where did all
that time go?  The years do seem to go by faster as one grows older.  


I celebrated by going and seeing The Lord of the Rings with a friend who had not
seen it yet.  It was my second time and the film still worked it's magic on me.
The messages in that film about friendship and perseverance in the face of 
adversity are very powerful and universal themes.  

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Jumping genes make 'designer'
animals easy
March 27, 2002
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Biotech company Tosk says it can
add genes to mammalian cells with
unprecedented efficiency with the
help of fruit fly DNA that can jump
in and out of chromosomes.
Introducing genes into mammals is
laborious and expensive at present.
The new method promises to make
genetically modified mammals...

http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992092




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