{"id":743,"date":"2003-09-26T09:01:24","date_gmt":"2003-09-26T13:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2003-09-26T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2003-09-26T13:01:24","slug":"reasons-to-avoid-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=743","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to avoid Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/today\/\">the Radio show<\/a>, that is. I was listening this morning, as I usually don&#8217;t, and caught the news that Craig Venter&#8217;s dog has had its genome sequenced. I hope they did it properly. In any case, it was announced that the dog had had &#8220;the blueprint for its genetic makeup&#8221; analysed. This is wrong in so many ways: genes aren&#8217;t blueprints for organisms, and even if they were, the genome isn&#8217;t a blueprint for the genes. But I liked the idea of a genetic makeup, and drifted off into fantasies about the women&#8217;s pages of the future: Martha&#8217;s lips are the product of <span class=\"caps\">SEXBOMB3 <\/span>from Sulston Biochem; her eyes are shadowed by <span class=\"caps\">GARBO4 <\/span>from Monsanto, and so on. Of course this will never happen. The most we can ever hope for is not funny at all: Elise gets her wonderfully prominent cheekbones from <span class=\"caps\">BRCA2.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; the Radio show, that is. I was listening this morning, as I usually don&#8217;t, and caught the news that Craig Venter&#8217;s dog has had its genome sequenced. I hope they did it properly. In any case, it was announced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}