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true, our "intelligance" has allowed us to manipulate nature (i use inteligance loosely as an inteligant animal would not destroy its habitat) our selective bredding to our own needs has brought us everything from sheep to domestic cats. Of course nature does this as well through evolution but we are coming to a new era with the ability to select and manipulate entire genomes. Im all for this, for everything from removing a genetic weakness from a population of animals nearing extinction to save them (if we have destroyed most of them instead of a mostly natural degridation) to gene therapy. If every man is born equil then every person should have the right to live their full life expectancy. The problem as i said comes from the rouge scientists that want to make cllones, design babies, enhance humans and so on. (personally if somones going to do that they shouldnt be allowed in university). The question here is over the moral issue, moral arguments can be risen on both sides and this is why world wide regulation is required on everything. Further to this i thing gene patenting is a stupid idea, just people tring to profit because they idemntified a gene first and can make money from seeing if you have it, soesnt seem to benifit the scientific community much really considering that information can be used in much more productive ways then a profit tool.

i suggest adaware SE and spybot search & destroy, preferably use both.

funk are you talking to yourself, i see one post by you then another saing about making them invisible.

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i was wondering if this was a possibility after learning how the HIV virus attatckes cells. The gene therapy prospect is more exciting though, given time it will im sure be a plausable methord. Thanks for the link.

its still tense, both sides will not comprimise enough to please the other i feel so there is a long way to go yet.

Of course genertic manipulation can go much further, look at GM crops. In the future it may be usefull to produce new antibiotics once natural strains become useless against the ever evolving bacterial infections.

its just spam

still doesnt work in firefox

move to devolpment? it makes a nice suggestion.

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its the picure from a MTG card.

tempting as it may be im not going to repost the same thing...

I just want to get some views on this, seems all we talk about here is america so something fresh is in order. Over the past 50 years we have moves further fowards in biochemistry, micro and cellular biology that noone could have dreamt of the current wealth of knoledge we have. With the human genome sequenced and us beginning to understand where the genes are located and what they do gene therapy is coming into the visible future. Stem cell research is another huge area and growing fast, the possibilities this brings are almost unimaginable from growing new organd to treating desises such as parkinsons. Here is the question, should we be going in this direction or are we playing too much with the natural cycle of things? Here is my view on the matter. This research has many problems in the international media, of course "possible cure for altsimers" or "cystic fibrosis is no more" wont sell as many papers as "GM superhumans in the next 10 years". This give people a rather srong feeling this should not be done at all. The ting is most people carring out this research have no intention of these things, its the cure of desiese and the understanding that drives them and thus requlation is required. The regulation needs to be adequate to stop the renagades that for some deranged reson feel that a GM superhuman or human clone is a good idea I am in full support of this research and find it increadably interesting (hence my reasons for taking a degree in biochemistry). I also feel its a very important matter for the evolution of our sociaty. But doesnt nature want to get rid of the bad genes? The answer is yes, but by gene therapy these genes are removed and thus naturs work has been sone, with thye benifit of somone that would uaually die having the chance to live a full and normal life. Being as human life is such a presous gift, i feel all we can must be done to prolong it and allow every single person to stay well and active throughout it.

seems that the right leader has been elcted. When negotiations get going i doubt sharon will be as generous as the palistinins want, are area of jerusliam in the west bank i feel will not be on the table and that will be a problem, it has ended talks in the past.

somethiung tell you we need some non bush / US / iraq discussion in here?

what rules?

what rules?

trainers i could have always said DNA or RNA but that was too dull for my taste.

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can we add no insulting other posters personally if they disagree with your views?

i dont think personal hatred is suffishant grounds to hate him as a president, although his personal stupidity does show in his polocies. Brain, your telling me he did sign keyoto, went to war with UN support, had the majority of votes the first time round, kept the US economy as strong as its ever been (like the $ never got to 2 to each £ sterling) and bush is in now way using his power to make the US the worlds police? I dont see how my reasons are disputeable so pleace elighten me..

I think its more their interpritation of the koran rather the twisting it. With any written article the interpriations made by an individual may be diffrent, thtas why christians have so many denominations or litrature discussions on the same book go on for years. Its the hard line at!@#$%^&*ue they adopt from their interpritations that generates the issues, in their view they are doing the work of allah as described in the holy text. The worst part of it all is they way the media portrays any terrorist groups, they often make it seem that evryone in the reigon is a terrorist or a terror supporter. On the day of 9/11 people were shown celebrating in the streets in some nations, apparently this video was of a holiday festival earlier in the year. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On a side note - what does the member !@#$%^&*le have to do with anything, i dont consider "lean mean spamming machine" all that "inteligant" or "mature", its not intended to be as is true in the case of montes.

I doubt the US would engineer something so drastic intentionally. I think they knew it was coming and let it happen so the terrorism and iraq issue could go ahead with alot of support. Its hard to explain how an aircraft got anywhere near the pentagon without a squadren of fighters going after it. Its thought they did the same with pearl harbour, let it happen to get themselves support to join WWII