genetic engineeringin a sentence
- The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering.† (source)
- Just last week the Harvard School of Divinity had marched on the Biology Building, protesting the genetic engineering taking place in the graduate program.† (source)
- Since there were no laws limiting genetic engineering, Rifkin regularly sued to stop it using any existing laws that might apply.† (source)
- In the United States, there was relatively little consumer backlash against genetic engineering.† (source)
- She was convinced she needed a professional journalist, not another earnest organic gardener, to do that, and she wanted to take on more challenging and important stories about the environment, genetic engineering, factory farming, and the burgeoning organic movement.† (source)
- Like, genetic engineering or systematic cruelty to animals or political incorrectness?† (source)
- And all of the scientists and leaders are GPs--genetically pure, descendants of people who resisted the genetic engineering movement in the first place.† (source)
- In the next fifteen minutes, we had equally fascinating discussions about genetic engineering, global warming, the possibility of books being completely obsolete in a few years because of computers, and the arrival at the local zoo of a new family of exotic, nearly extinct Australian birds.† (source)
- Monoclonal antibody research, gene probes, combinatorial chemistry, genetic engineering-we've scoured every corner of Earth for the right breakthrough.† (source)
- We learned that early this century when genetic engineering nearly slipped out of control.† (source)
- Georgine held up the Polaroid again, as if Joe should be able to grasp at once how the photo of a gravestone and genetic engineering were related.† (source)
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- Like the rest of the flock, I'm much stronger than even a grown man—genetic engineering at work.† (source)
- The Vatican called CERN from time to time as a "courtesy" before issuing scathing statements condemning CERN's research-most recently for CERN's breakthroughs in nanotechnology, a field the church denounced because of its implications for genetic engineering.† (source)
- "Yet, you'll remember," he said, "the original genetic engineering companies, like Genentech and Cetus, were all started to make pharmaceuticals.† (source)
- Their new company, Genentech, quickly became the largest and most successful of the genetic engineering start-ups.† (source)
- In the 1980s, a few genetic engineering companies began to ask, "What is the biological equivalent of a Sony Walkman?"† (source)
- And, you remember, our original intent was to use the newly emerging technology of genetic engineering to make money.† (source)
- But InGen was obviously setting up one of the most powerful genetic engineering facilities in the world in an obscure Central American country.† (source)
- But any genetic engineering lab is likely to have one, if it can afford the half-million-dollar price tag.† (source)
- Countries that perceived genetic engineering to be like any other high-tech development, and thus welcomed it to their lands, unaware of the dangers posed.† (source)
- Because this enzyme was a marker for genetic engineering, and not found in wild animals, technicians assumed it was a lab contaminant and did not report it when they called Dr, Cruz, the referring physician in Puntarenas.† (source)
- Ironically, her own genetic engineering, designed to keep the vaccine viable for long periods without contacting any host or moisture, had allowed the inert vaccine to mutate in such adverse conditions.† (source)
- "Whatever we've done in genetic engineering, in vitro, with social programs, we still can't control basic human failings: violence, lust, envy."† (source)
- It looks like a copy of a contract, but it's handwritten in ink: I, Amanda Marie Ritter, of Peoria, Illinois, give my consent to the following procedures: The "genetic healing" procedure, as defined by the Bureau of Genetic Welfare: "a genetic engineering procedure designed to correct the genes specified as 'damaged' on page three of this form."† (source)
- Babies were born blind, deaf, deformed before genetic engineering and the research it made possible to repair in vitro.† (source)
- She waited while he completed his impassioned speech on the moral decline of the country, the insidious corruption that stemmed from promiscuity, conception control, genetic engineering.† (source)
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