I ate a genetically modified food--"Uglie Tomato" tm and immediately broke out in hives and had to take 4 Benadryls to avoid the ER. I avoid the stuff like the plague but they are sneaking it into everything. All this messing around with God's creation is going to come back on us in a way we never could imagine.
Victoria | 06.30.03 - 11:01 am | #

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
ian malcolm | 06.30.03 - 11:01 am | #

"but mom, (sob, sob) none of the other kids glow in the dark"!
mk | 06.30.03 - 11:29 am | #

Is there such a thing as a Catholic Quaker?
Paul Scheibmeir | 06.30.03 - 11:43 am | #

Way cool! I wonder if they could do that for me? I could be, like, a human firefly. And I wouldn't need a lighter at a rock concert, or a strobe light at a disco either.
Neat!
Francois | 06.30.03 - 12:13 pm | #

If homosexual 'marriage' is ok, why not genetically modified humans?
pavel chichikov | Homepage | 06.30.03 - 1:10 pm | #

Most hilarious unintentional college recruitment poster I ever saw:

"Enter the Brave New World of Bioscience!"
Mark Shea | Homepage | 06.30.03 - 1:37 pm | #

Sorry to rain on people's fun with this issue, but hundreds of millions of people have been eating GM food for the past 8-10 years and no statistically significant problems have been detected. Should be ban peanuts because thousands of Americans are lethally sensitive to them? (Not just ban them from schools, ban them totally.)
The firefly gene was inserted as an easy to measure marker of transferred gene activity because the alternative--antibiotic resitant genes--drew criticism. I may be the only person on this part of the blogsphere to have worked with a luciferase system, the enzymatic system that produces bioluminesence.
Sandra Miesel | 06.30.03 - 2:31 pm | #

The story is significant because it involves genetic manipulation of a vertebrate - like you and me.

We're just going to insert a bit of chimp genetics in your cells so you can peel bananas with your toes.
pavel chichikov | Homepage | 06.30.03 - 3:22 pm | #

Pavel: Actually, the significance is the commercial aspect. A rabbit was modified to glow a year or so ago.
Marc Lewandowski | 06.30.03 - 10:37 pm | #