http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/06/10/genetic-engineering-gone-horribly-wrong-slicing-open-splice/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/06/10/genetic-engineering-gone-horribly-wrong-slicing-open-splice/#comment-2507 Alexis Mariani Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:24:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=663#comment-2507 Hello ! I'm pretty sure that already see this content in another website, maybe another website copy your website, look on google, sorry for mistake i noramlly speak french ;-) ! Bye bye and continue like that Hello ! I’m pretty sure that already see this content in another website, maybe another website copy your website, look on google, sorry for mistake i noramlly speak french ! Bye bye and continue like that

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/06/10/genetic-engineering-gone-horribly-wrong-slicing-open-splice/#comment-2506 You Got Genetic Engineered Fish in My Dish! | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:13:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=663#comment-2506 [...] What is probably most worrisome to these organizations is the prospect that another less vigilant company could accidentally release an altered specimen into the wild, allowing it to proliferate at the expense of the wild species thanks to its beneficial genes and, in the worst-case scenario, drive it towards extinction. Also, it would be one thing if these companies only tinkered with their chosen animal’s genes on a small scale–say increase the proportion of white meat or boost their muscle mass–but what if you get the odd scientist who decides to splice in genes from another species a la Splice? [...] [...] What is probably most worrisome to these organizations is the prospect that another less vigilant company could accidentally release an altered specimen into the wild, allowing it to proliferate at the expense of the wild species thanks to its beneficial genes and, in the worst-case scenario, drive it towards extinction. Also, it would be one thing if these companies only tinkered with their chosen animal’s genes on a small scale–say increase the proportion of white meat or boost their muscle mass–but what if you get the odd scientist who decides to splice in genes from another species a la Splice? [...]

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