Fwd: <nettime> stem cells

[ben moretti <bmoretti@chariot.net.au>]

I wish I had AIs this well trained. Mine can hardly fetch my slippers.

Ben


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> Date: Tue May 14, 2002  03:23:00  PM Australia/South
> To: bmoretti@chariot.net.au
> Subject: Re: <nettime> stem cells
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> ----- Original -----
>
>> I'd much prefer to have my `dna' (infact the cellular evelope
>> of the ovum which contains no DNA)
>
> i was being a little over-rhetorical.
>
> ben

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