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Uses and abuses of genetic engineering

Chairman of the Molecular Immunology Programme at the Babraham Institute; Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge; and Editor of the journal Science and Christian Belief

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Correspondence to:
Dr Denis Alexander, Molecular Immunology Programme, Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK;
denis.alexander@bbsrc.ac.uk

Keywords: genetic engineering

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Genetic engineering refers to the techniques whereby recombinant DNA, hybrid DNA made by artificially joining pieces of DNA from different sources, is produced and utilised. The term has gradually broadened out from this earlier more stringent definition to encompass virtually any process involving DNA manipulation. The applications of genetic engineering are now so widespread and well established within the biomedical sciences that it is difficult for younger investigators to envisage what research life was like in the era before genetic engineering. A quick skim of the articles in the current issue of the Journal of Immunology, a journal that ranges from clinical perspectives to molecular characterisation, reveals that out of 79 articles no less than 65 (82%) utilised genetic engineering as an important component of their investigation. In the more molecular journals that figure would certainly be 100% and even in the most clinical journals genetic engineering . . . [Full text of this article]

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