This from an article in From The Irish Independent,
http://www.independent.ie/2001/11/ieu11a.shtml on the first primate synthetic
gene:
> However, Dr David King, co-ordinator of the Campaign Against Human Genetic
> Engineering, said: "This is yet another step on the slippery slope to
> designer babies. People should wake up to the fact that genetic engineering
> of people could be just around the corner.
>
> "We need a global ban on human genetic engineering, and research directed
> towards it should not be funded."
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question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."
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