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Emily Anthes | Frankenstein’s Cat

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTcsaUTybGpATmQzi2TCGSnG8SVdPHoHbNc-h5RfXe3fvCUbxTWrJqv6E6p3UKhK6rKAvjGlS9RydDRdd4BDm1p7x-Cv_HqLiwFZPqIsyEf8-pOlrjbj7nIXTLKW1DO039S75EwGTc-eI/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTcsaUTybGpATmQzi2TCGSnG8SVdPHoHbNc-h5RfXe3fvCUbxTWrJqv6E6p3UKhK6rKAvjGlS9RydDRdd4BDm1p7x-Cv_HqLiwFZPqIsyEf8-pOlrjbj7nIXTLKW1DO039S75EwGTc-eI/s320/9.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div id="posttext" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/03/11/173514863/frankensteins-cat-bioengineering-the-animals-of-the-future" target="blank">National Public Radio</a></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><b>n <i>Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts</i>, science journalist Emily Anthes talks about how the landscape of bioengineering has expanded. Scientists, she says, are now working to create pigs that can grow organs for human transplant, goats that produce valuable protein-rich milk, and cockroaches that could potentially serve as tiny scouts into danger zones for the military.</b><br /><br />One lab in China is even tackling the human genome by way of the mouse genome. There, researchers are randomly disabling mouse genes one at a time, in order to identify the function of each gene.<br /><br /><object data="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf" height="24" id="audioplayer527" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="290"> <param name="movie" value="http://halkinnaman.com/ed/audio_rr/player.swf"><param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=audioplayer527&soundFile=http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2013/03/20130311_fa_01.mp3"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="menu" value="false"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></object>    <br /><div><a href="http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2013/03/20130311_fa_01.mp" target="blank">download mp3</a></div></div>