They’re being bred now by the millions, the mutants, created to carry the ghastliest of diseases for the benefit of the human race. Since researchers published the mouse’s entire genetic make-up in map form three years ago, increasingly exotic rodents are being created with relative ease.
Americans may not know it, but most eat genetically modified food daily. And two Midwestern scientists — one an unassuming gardener, the other a no-nonsense executive — are largely responsible.
Animal conservationists are excited about the potential for saving endangered species. Astounding even veterans of the fight against animal extinction, cloning technology has reproduced two endangered wild cattle bulls, each born to dairy cows last week on a farm in Iowa, United States.
Inside modern towers that are a pride of Fidel Castro, scientists peer through huge microscopes at tiny proteins they hope to tailor to treat such major killers as Aids, heart disease and cancer.
