Part 86 (2/2)

CHAPTER 5: THE REINVENTION OF LIFE AND DEATH.

1 introduce human genes into other animals

Richard Gray, ”Genetically Modified Cows Produce 'Human' Milk,” Telegraph, April 2, 2011.

2 mixing the genes of spiders and goats

Adam Rutherford, ”Synthetic Biology and the Rise of the 'Spider-Goats,' ” Guardian, January 14, 2012.

3 computer chips into the gray matter of human brains

Daniel H. Wilson, ”Bionic Brains and Beyond,” Wall Street Journal, June 1, 2012.

4 parents who wish to design their own children

Keith Kleiner, ”Designer Babies-Like It or Not, Here They Come,” Singularity Hub, February 25, 2009, singularityhub.com/2009/02/25/designer-babies-like-it-or-not-here-they-come/.

5 sometimes noted, ”There Be Monsters”

H. P. Newquist, Here There Be Monsters: The Legendary Kraken and the Giant Squid (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2010).

6 they seized knowledge that had been forbidden them

Genesis 3:1619.

7 so he could endure the same fate the next morning

Thomas Chen and Peter Chen, ”The Myth of Prometheus and the Liver,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 87 (December 1994): 754.

8 replacement livers in their laboratory bioreactors

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