Comments on: Your Genetic Future: Horse-Dogs, Plantimals and Mini-Rhino Pets http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/12/your-genetic-future-horse-dogs-plantimals-and-mini-rhino-pets/ A history of the future that never was Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Kate http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/12/your-genetic-future-horse-dogs-plantimals-and-mini-rhino-pets/#comment-1343 Kate Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:33:17 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=5627#comment-1343 Hey there is a really great Radiolab episode about all of this... http://www.radiolab.org/2008/apr/07/ Hey there is a really great Radiolab episode about all of this…
http://www.radiolab.org/2008/apr/07/

]]> By: Peter http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/12/your-genetic-future-horse-dogs-plantimals-and-mini-rhino-pets/#comment-1341 Peter Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:32:50 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=5627#comment-1341 There is also currently research to create meat artificially (sometimes called in-vitro meat). Will be interesting for vegetarians (I myself am one). There is also currently research to create meat artificially (sometimes called in-vitro meat). Will be interesting for vegetarians (I myself am one).

]]> By: Mallory Warner http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/12/your-genetic-future-horse-dogs-plantimals-and-mini-rhino-pets/#comment-1338 Mallory Warner Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:13:25 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=5627#comment-1338 No mini rhinos yet, but the "superbugs" are in full force! SI's National Museum of American History has a great collection of drugs produced by genetically modified single-celled organisms. You can check them out online here: http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=set_name:"Recombinant+Pharmaceuticals" As for the oil-eating bacteria, they came about as well and were the subject of the Supreme Court ruling Diamond v. Chakrabarty that allowed people to put patents on genetically modified lifeforms. No mini rhinos yet, but the “superbugs” are in full force! SI’s National Museum of American History has a great collection of drugs produced by genetically modified single-celled organisms. You can check them out online here:

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=set_name:”Recombinant+Pharmaceuticals”

As for the oil-eating bacteria, they came about as well and were the subject of the Supreme Court ruling Diamond v. Chakrabarty that allowed people to put patents on genetically modified lifeforms.

]]> By: Paul http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/12/your-genetic-future-horse-dogs-plantimals-and-mini-rhino-pets/#comment-1337 Paul Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:49:10 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=5627#comment-1337 We have fluorescent jellyfish-cats. Surely that counts for something? http://gfp.conncoll.edu/cooluses7b.html We have fluorescent jellyfish-cats. Surely that counts for something?

http://gfp.conncoll.edu/cooluses7b.html

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