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posted by [personal profile] lovingboth at 09:13am on 12/11/2001
You want scary? Browsing the US patents database -- endlessly fascinating -- late last night, I discover that someone's worked out how to alter the sex balance of mammals.

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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posted by [personal profile] lovingboth at 01:39am on 13/11/2001
... the latter bit makes it even worse if it can work with humans.

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.
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Almost Lamarckian...

posted by [identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com at 06:08am on 14/11/2001
That's weird -- and if it works, it has to work by a really nasty method.

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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