http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-tc-nw-plant-artist-0422apr22,0,1715677.story
This guy infused his dna into a plant, thus blurring the lines between plants and animals.
Stolen From the Trib:
MINNEAPOLIS – — The ever-accelerating March of Science has brought us cloned sheep, cows and most recently a camel. Are we ready now for a “plantimal”? That is, an organism combining genetic material from a plant and an animal? Specifically a petunia infused with human DNA?
Ready or not, a Chicago artist and a University of Minnesota biologist have concocted just such a petunia, called “Edunia,” after artist Eduardo Kac, whose DNA runs through its veins. The pink-ruffled flower is the star of an exhibit that opened last week at the university’s Weisman Art Museum.
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