“Ninharsag and her crew are closer to being vindicated as time passes, and soon your theories will no longer be theories!”
So wrote to me a fan (Jack Byrd in Virginia) in a congratulatory letter accompanying a newspaper clipping headlined “Genetically modified primate is world’s first.” It was the report about the successful birth of ANDi (‘inserted DNA’ spelled backward), a baby rhesus monkey “created” by a group of researchers at the Oregon Regional Primate Center, whose genetic makeup was modified to include the genes from a jellyfish that make it glow in the dark.
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