“What would happen if an organism containing such a dangerous gene escaped? What if a gene got into the food chain?”
A senior British scientist on the risks of Morphotek’s plans to insert human cancer-causing genes into animals and plants to cause fast mutations, allegedly speeding discovery of new organisms (The Observer, London, 24 November)
“Reporting a desktop computer as lost is like my spouse telling me she has lost the refrigerator.”
Security memo leaked from the Los Alamos National Laboratory on the $1.3 million in unsolved thefts of LANL computers, cameras and PDAs, which may contain sensitive information (USA Today, 21 November).…
