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purplerabbits at 12:33pm on 12/11/2001 under link
purplerabbits at 12:33pm on 12/11/2001 under linkAnother gob-snacking article from the Guardian...
Bogglety bogglety boggle.
One of the world's biggest tobacco companies aims to make billions of pounds from the diseases caused by cigarette smoking through deals with biotech companies for the exclusive rights to market future lung cancer vaccines.
Bogglety bogglety boggle.
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OK, they've only worked it out with mice and rats, and it only affects the ratio of male/female offspring in the daughters of the animal being treated, but...
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You want any daughters to give you grandsons? Well, just make sure her mother's taken the right pills during her pregnancy and she won't have much choice.
Altering the m/f balance is one of the holy grail's -- am I the only person who can't type that without thinking of John Cleese's accent as Tim the Wizard in Monty Python and the HG? -- of biology, and there's a huge wodge of money awaiting anyone who can do it for food animals. Oh, and us of course.
Almost Lamarckian...
Of course, people writing patent applications do tend to broaden the claim in all possible directions around what actually works, but still...
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