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- agaiziunas, on 10/06/2008, -3/+15"We contacted the Scientists for comment but learned they had been recently mauled by a daffodil when some praying mantis DNA got mixed into the splice..."
- PatrickFlorida, on 10/07/2008, -2/+10I would love the smell of my weed to smell less like cannabis and more like a rose. That way, when burning it, I don't get my car searched.
- jcharak58, on 10/07/2008, -0/+7if they make flowers smell so strong.... then we'd only need to buy one rose for valentine's day because a dozen would be too strong
- BoSuu, on 10/07/2008, -1/+7Its a conspiracy! Scientists will release the flowers into the wild and make peoples allergies even worse! The drug companies will make massive profit!
Dugg, we must stop this from happening. - sockpuppets, on 10/07/2008, -0/+6Until it goes horribly wrong and a flower kills your whole family.
- Sornos, on 10/07/2008, -0/+5Understanding how life and the universe functions is and always should be the most important thing a scientist works for.
- zerton, on 10/07/2008, -0/+5they should transfer these genes to people on the train
- SMFB, on 10/07/2008, -3/+8another pressing issue of our time finally solved!
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+5buried for idiotic use of pedobear.
- Revolutionista, on 10/07/2008, -1/+6Please do. I can't be the only one around here that would like to know of an increase in something inherently pleasant.
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+4This will rock the cannabis world.
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/07/2008, -0/+4Or TWICE as sweet with some genetic enhancements!
- DforSpiD, on 10/07/2008, -0/+4Relevance?
- Medicamusic, on 10/28/2008, -1/+4I would think it would be so your mom wouldn't find your stash.
- KillerBears, on 10/07/2008, -0/+3I wonder how bee's/other pollinating insects react to these things
- XxpokemasterxX, on 10/07/2008, -1/+4as cool as that would be... I feel like there is just something beautiful about skunky buds.
maybe beautiful isn't the right word. - DRZion, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2This is very interesting and actually I am contacting my professor about it right now!
My prof is combating malaria using plants as vector for malaria medicine. Mosquitoes (only the females) feed on blood because they need protein for their eggs. Aside from this they eat plant nectar, much like butterflies. So, if you put poison for the plasmodium parasite (the cause of malaria in mosquitoes) inside the plants that mosquitoes feed on, the parasite gets killed and so the mosquito no longer causes malaria.
You can use scent to make the plant more attractive to mosquitoes, increasing the likelihood that it will be fed on and thus purge itself of the parasite that is so harmful to the third world.
Thanks Digg!! - Junior612, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2A rose by any other name may would smell as sweet.
- aimhelix, on 10/07/2008, -2/+4The freakin' world is about to collapse because of all this ***** going on and you are going to enhance what?
- sardion2000, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2Yeah my mom is always finding my stash, right before smoking it all on me lol.
- jman583, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2Yah, and the Large Hadron Collider is going to create a black hole.
- smith, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2What an achievement guys! How about takin' a crack at cancer now?
- jman583, on 10/07/2008, -0/+2Never!!
*runs and turns on the LHC* - SpeedSteamBoat, on 10/07/2008, -1/+3What better time to enhance something beautiful than when the world is about to collapse?
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Coming soon:
The SUPERROSE!
Smells TWICE as sweet! - expert01, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Exactly, let's make roses smell better so that everyone can stop and smell them, and forget all this financial nonsense.
- thenewguru, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1We can finally take those incurable diseases off the back burner, now that we solved this whole flower fiasco we'll need something else to occupy our great minds. - Scientists
- 3242130193, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1sweet. burning tyre-smelling tulips. i'll give one to my ex
- tigertee, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1but i would rather have flowers then cancer! -_-"
- Chainheart2, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1It's not like they have to tweak every flower. After one is tweaked, the seeds will spread and artificial selection will make them more common
- expert01, on 10/07/2008, -1/+2And I can't be the only one that finds flowers have almost no scent and no olfactory appeal. Roses, daffodils, grass, it all smells the same.
- gernblansted, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Zyrtec, Allegra, Nasonex, Claritin, Decadron, Trinalin or Semprex-D anyone?
- gernblansted, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Again...
- jvaidya1, on 10/07/2008, -2/+3Is this serious? Setting aside the "wow" factor in this announcement, who decided this was a good idea?
I can say with confidence that I believe genetic manipulation of plants is an awful idea. Perhaps I may favor genetically altering plants that could potentially feed millions of people worldwide. However, genetically altering characteristics of plants (or animals for that matter) that have no inherent benefit to hummankind is a dangerous venture.
Although recent advances in genetic mapping have exponentially advanced our knowlege of genes and their properties, we have only begun to understand the long-term consequences of such actions.
Who is to say the slightest change in a protein here and another protein over there may not create a new, destructive species of plant that will encroach on other species and destroy worldwide habitats?
Clearly I am being a big over-dramatic, but my point is, are these experiments really worth the POSSIBLE consequences when the value of these experiments seems trivial? - MaliciousKitty, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Agh. Flowers always smell like soil to me, and I would prefer if they didn't make that stronger. They look pretty but I don't want to smell them.
- Waterrat, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1 But it's so disappointing to come upon a beautiful rose that hardly has any smell...
- Intenseboredom, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1pics or it di...
actually, i don't really care about flowers. - jugglingjon, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1i can see this getting obnoxious really fast.
- benitojuarez, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1One of the few joys of being a parent
- dragon76, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1You'd probably like it better if it smelled like Jasmine because it tastes better.
- alphaskeptical, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1finally we can save some money during tax day, feb. 14. woohoo
- dragon76, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1Crazy Daisy Ed!
- inactive, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1pointless research?
- ArmedRebel, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1This was totally worth it.
- ArmedRebel, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1We better check ourselves before before we end up with a manbearpig.
I'm being serial here. Super serial, even. - RadiatedAnt, on 10/07/2008, -0/+1I always did like the scent of pussywillows......What?
- skylar77, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1Took long enough
- inactive, on 10/06/2008, -5/+5LETS GO GATTACA
- UberPwned, on 10/09/2008, -0/+0Why do we always have to have more of everything, nature did just fine without us coming in trying to enhance it
- Backstab, on 10/07/2008, -1/+1I love GM.
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