From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:kalash Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Modified E. Coli - (nf) Article-I.D.: ucbcad.673 Posted: Tue Feb 22 01:35:56 1983 Received: Tue Feb 22 10:29:37 1983 #R:dadla-a:-29600:ucbcad:26000007:000:423 ucbcad!kalash Feb 21 09:51:00 1983 I hate to tell you this, but the biologists don't use the E. Coli cells anymore. I have a friend at UCSF doing all sorts of strange (only sort of comprehensible to me) things to the DNA of a mouse skin cell. She tells me that the biologists figured out that the chance of harmful mutation happening, escaping, and then survivng were vanishingly small (they have a real problem keeping the things alive as it is). Joe