From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 23:31:33 MST
Robert J. Bradbury:
> With Worm Experiments, Scientists Turn Off Genes (AP)
> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/15/science/15WEB_WORM.html?pagewanted=print
Waaaaiiitt a minute:
< In the new method, British researchers added genetic material from a
roundworm to bacteria. Then they fed the bioengineered bacteria to the
worms. The worms' immune systems recognized the genetic material carried by
bacteria as foreign and destroyed that sequence in their own genetic coding.
In doing so, the worms rapidly turned themselves into knockout versions.>
I do hope this doesn't mean that tailored xenotransplants will end up
knocking out important genes in the patients.
Damien Broderick
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