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I believe that Hackman wrote in article <5nt93i$ph2@winter.erols.com>:

>Japanese scientist seem to find it neccesary to produce a litter of 
>glowing mice by injecting dna from jellyfish into the embryo of a mouse. 
>All I can say is they must be a bunch of sick assed bastards with nothing 
>better to do. The silly motherfuckers must have gotten a good hard laugh 
>out of that experiment.

And this relates to the Japanese language and concerns you just how?
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Don Kirkman               
"Every day is the dawn of a new error." - Shinzube Karazu

Hackman wrote in article <5nt93i$ph2@winter.erols.com>:
> 
> Japanese scientist seem to find it neccesary to produce a litter of
> glowing mice by injecting dna from jellyfish into the embryo of a mouse.
> All I can say is they must be a bunch of sick assed bastards with nothing
> better to do. The silly motherfuckers must have gotten a good hard laugh
> out of that experiment.
Since you asked, this is an important development, as it ushers in a new
era in which we know you can create vastly altered individuals by simply
injecting DNA from a species whose genetic history is vastly divergent. 
Whether or not you consider this to be incredibly important to the
future of mankind makes no difference.  It was done, and it is a
breakthrough.

Don't knock pure science.  It's the only thing that can take us into the
future.
-- 
Van Isaac Anderson
vanisaac@hotmail.com
mailto:vanisaac@geocities.com
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I believe that Van Isaac Anderson wrote in article
<33A33349.11D8@geocities.com>:

>Hackman wrote in article <5nt93i$ph2@winter.erols.com>:

>> Japanese scientist seem to find it neccesary to produce a litter of
>> glowing mice by injecting dna from jellyfish into the embryo of a mouse.
>> All I can say is they must be a bunch of sick assed bastards with nothing
>> better to do. The silly motherfuckers must have gotten a good hard laugh
>> out of that experiment.
>Since you asked, this is an important development, as it ushers in a new
>era in which we know you can create vastly altered individuals by simply
>injecting DNA from a species whose genetic history is vastly divergent. 
>Whether or not you consider this to be incredibly important to the
>future of mankind makes no difference.  It was done, and it is a
>breakthrough.

>Don't knock pure science.  It's the only thing that can take us into the
>future.

Don't avoid my question (which you referred to even though you didn't
quote it):  what is its relevance to the sci.lang.japan newsgroup?
-- 
Don Kirkman               
"Every day is the dawn of a new error." - Shinzube Karazu

Don Kirkman wrote:

> Don't avoid my question (which you referred to even though you didn't
> quote it):  what is its relevance to the sci.lang.japan newsgroup?
> --
> Don Kirkman

I felt that the question of relevence is best answered by the original
author.  I was simply replying to the science-bashing that was ensuing. 
I too feel that this post had very little relevence to sci.lang.japan. 
Hope our original poster replies soon.

-- 
Van Isaac Anderson
vanisaac@hotmail.com
mailto:vanisaac@geocities.com

I believe that the purpose was not to produce mice that glow, but to use
the glow-producing gene as a marker that would be transmitted with
another gene whose effects were more subtle and not so easily detected.
By identifying mice with the luciferin-like producing gene (that's the
firefly compound; I don't know if the jellyfish use the same thing)
easily, the scientists are able to segregate out the mice that have been
transplanted succesfully with the "interesting" gene (i.e., one that
might be able to cure a metabolic defect, such as Werdnig-Hoffman,
Tay-Sachs, beta thalassemia, Gaucher's, etc., where the effects could
take months to measure).

It is also evident that this was originally posted to a Japan-related
newsgroup to promote someone's agenda of Japan- or Japanese-bashing.  In
the interests of politesse, followups have been set to dc.general.