Re: [Virtual NY] Goats with spider gene produce webs

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From: Karl Anderson (kra@monkey.org)
Date: Tue May 23 2000 - 10:16:02 PDT


Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:

> joelinda1@home.com writes:
> >
> > I'm interested in genomics as an investment, but this is just a
> > little too bizarre (Adam thought it was deserving of a post here!)
>
> This one has been coming for quite a long time. Another candidate is
> glue protein from mussels, for surgical applications.

& hormones/enzymes/whatever from mouse urine, by finding the genes for
the bladder wall & adding the factories to them. Easier to extract
the goods, too, because there aren't many proteins being excreted.

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Karl Anderson      kra@monkey.org           http://www.pobox.com/~kra/


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