http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...cientists.html
I found this on Mike Yon's blog this morning. Things like this always give me conflicting feelings. I can see the utility and benefits of such advances; OTOH, I don't believe we should be screwing with genetics in this manner. Just as there are benefits, there are also potential consequences.
Many of our present scientific realities were once fodder for science fiction literature. We are already seeing trouble with "super bacteria", resistant to many of our present antibacterial protocols. Genetically engineering a goat to produce "spider silk milk" , which is then woven into "bullet resistant skin", just opens too many windows of the imagination. What "super bacteria" may be inadvertantly created by combining genes from various species to produce something never meant to exist?
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