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sorry, you can;t make it, . did the cloning isssue , give you pause?

Yes. I'm working toward this goal fairly rapidly, but trying to do so in a way that minimizes risk to the field. James Wilson (who happened to be my physician, in the 1990s) set back the field of gene therapy by a decade by rushing.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=gene-therapy-an-interview

My lab is good at conceiving of radically new technologies as well as improving throughput and quality by factors of ten. Given a couple of years and decent funding, this would become much more reasonable. I'm too busy dong it well to get distracted by trying to do it badly.

-- George