From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:kalash
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Modified E. Coli - (nf)
Article-I.D.: ucbcad.666
Posted: Mon Feb 21 09:51:11 1983
Received: Tue Feb 22 03:46:29 1983

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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