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China's western Shaanxi Province is known for rugged windswept terrain and its coal and wool, but not necessarily its science. Yet at the Shaanxi Provincial Engineering and Technology Research Center for Shaanbei Cashmere Goats, scientists have just created a new kind of goat, with bigger muscles and longer hair than normal. The goats were made not by breeding but by directly manipulating animal DNA—a sign of how rapidly China has embraced a global gene-changing revolution.
Geneticist Lei Qu wants to increase goatherd incomes by boosting how much meat and wool each animal produces. For years research projects at his lab in Yulin, a former garrison town along the Great Wall, stumbled along, Qu's colleagues say. "The results were not so obvious, although we had worked so many years," his research assistant, Haijing Zhu, wrote in an e-mail.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by dyingtolive on Wednesday November 25 2015, @11:41PM
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 2) by Tork on Thursday November 26 2015, @12:59AM
You do know that that line was there just to hand-wave away why people smart enough to reincarnate dinos weren't quite bright enough to safely store them, right? "Life will find a way" is another one. Remeber "I know this system"...? Same thing.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 26 2015, @01:03AM
To ethicists and proponents of restricting science, Jurassic Park is a documentary film series, not blockbuster entertainment.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26 2015, @02:24AM
Brilliance is a non-fungible resource. Being good at one thing does not make you good at another. I'd think computer scientists, engineers, and physicists would have learned their lesson when trying to find a mate in highschool, but arrogance dies hard.