Re:

Sorry, you can't make it. Did the cloning issue 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 doing it well to get distracted by trying to do it badly.

-- George

I fully understand, why don't you come and I won't mention it. I just find it intellectually amusing, Marvin and Martin will also be disappointed.