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Instead of using the conventional technique of painstakingly inserting / foreign genes into an egg cell with a tiny needle, the scientists simply bathed sperm cells in a solution of bacterial DNA. The sperm, from mice, incorporated the genes by some still unknown process, then went on to fertilize eggs in a test tube. As the mice matured, 30% of them produced an enzyme normally made only by bacteria -- proof that the bacterial DNA had become part of the mice's genetic makeup...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...Chicago police officer after buying a Treasury bond last week: "If you invest in the Federal Government, the whole country has to fall apart before you lose anything." Despite the Government's profligate spending habits, most people think it can still be trusted with a citizen's nest egg...
...making the fetus viable earlier in pregnancy. Susman pressed the notion that scientific progress had made the right to abortion impossible to disentangle from the right to practice contraception. He maintained that certain forms of birth control such as intrauterine devices act after the sperm and the egg have joined, a description that some medical experts dispute. But if accurate, then such devices in effect abort what the Missouri statute would define as a living being...
...over the issue of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard--and it appears that the council failed that the test. The council tried to exchange the integrity of its democratic process for "legitimacy" in the eyes of a vocal minority of its constituents and ended up with egg on its face...