See here: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=longest-piece-of-dna-yet
And note this: "The scientists disabled the gene that gave the bug power to
infect human cells, and they added a few "watermarks," short strips of
signature genetic code that identify the product as man-made."
Let's say civilization as we know it collapses, this bug escapes into the
wild and continues to evolve, and scientists working in a rebuilt society in
the far future reconstruct the evolved bug's genetic history. Would they be
able to conclude that it was originally designed?
-- David W. Opderbeck Associate Professor of Law Seton Hall University Law School Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with "unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.Received on Wed Jun 4 12:17:36 2008
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