Subj: News of the Weird(.668)
Date: 12/22/2000 3:53:18 PM Central Standard Time
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Great Art!

* News of the Weird has reported on scientists who borrow the jellyfish's
"green protein" for medically productive genetic modifications, but Chicago
artist Eduardo Kac created controversy in September by proposing to create
embryos with the jellyfish's green-light-producing gene just to make visually
appealing organisms, such as a glowing rabbit. (Kac's major work so far is
"Genesis," a sentence from the Old Testament, translated into Morse Code,
transposed onto DNA, inserted into fluorescent bacteria, and lit up when
anyone accesses the piece on Kac's Web site.)

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