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Re: [RC] Bioengineered Endurance Athletes? - Jon . Linderman
The trangenic process in a mouse is light years faster than w/a rat, let
alone a horse. It aint gonna happen in our life time!
Jon K. Linderman, Ph.D., FACSM
Assistant Professor of Health and Sport Science
University of Dayton
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Dayton, OH 45469-1210
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Lif Strand
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08/19/2002 11:51 AM
At 02:07 AM 8/19/02, Lynne Glazer wrote:
>Spiegelman cautions that there is still five to 10 years of work to be
>done before PGC-1 based treatments will be available.
If this actually is the wave of the future, that's 10 - 15 years of
endurance as we know it, allowing for the fact that a transgenetic horse
would have to have the gene manipulation done at the egg level. I guess
that also means I'll never be a transgenetic athlete!
And this might call for another *rule* (yippee)! AERC board of directors
better consider whether transgenetic horses would be allowed to compete in
endurance rides. Or maybe we should have a separate division. Just think
- LDs that would routinely be over in less than an hour (we could finally
get TV coverage and get into the Olympics)! Cutoff times for 100 milers of
5 hours (that allows for a one hour vet check in the middle). No more need
for overnight camping! The benefits of PCG-1 are just mind boggling!!
I better stop breeding right now and wait till I can create my own
transgenetic super athlete horses, because all of what I now could produce
will just be old slow pokes and we all know that faster is better.
Hmmm. Wonder what will happen to those non-transgenetic bones and
ligaments the new super athlete horses will have?
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