gujarati world

thank you for explaining the genome research done by Dr Vector and his team so lucidly.

but even though you acknowledge the importance of the successful experiment by writing that કૃત્રિમ ડીએનએની મદદથી કુદરતી કોષ પાસે ધાર્યું કરાવવાની સિદ્ધિ જેવીતેવી નથી, it appears your habitual sarcasm persists as your second nature when you write 'આ વખતે વેન્ટરની મંડળીએ ‘કૃત્રિમ કોષ’માં કેવીક ધાડ મારી છે'

Dr Ventor's experiment, as you yourself suggest, has tremendous possibilities : 'ચોક્કસ પ્રકારનું ડીએનએ બનાવીને તેને બેક્ટેરિયાનાં ‘ખોખાં’માં ભરવાથી એવા સજીવ બનાવી શકાય છે, જેમનું અત્યાર લગી ઉત્ક્રાંતિની પ્રક્રિયામાં સર્જન થઇ શક્યું નથી.'

any scientific discovery or invention per se must remain with neutral value judgment, it is the application of that knowledge that poses challenge. are we going to use it for human welfare and progress in a creative and constructive manner or monopolizing it for money and power to rule by destruction?

these experiments have but one lesson to learn and one challenge to meet : we should be ready to enhance the idea of fraternity to welcome new life forms that might come in unfamiliar shapes and sizes, colours and gender, race and descent. let us prepare ourselves to shed all our prejudices and discriminatory practices.

a very good post indeed and many congrats.

ahmedabad,
may 31, 2010

oh sorry, i have to enter into the box again.

it was by chance i got to watch your DRISHTIKON programme on TV. you should have announced it in your blog, for it was worth it.

the panel of shri prakash shah and prof gaurang jani was quite competent in giving justice to the hot topic of caste in census. i found it informative and educative. i was much impressed by the sociology professor when he asserted that all socio-economic parameters that define Indians must find place in census. for only then our planners, policy makers, legislators would engineer strategies to tackle many a social evil that plague our society.

ahmedabad,
may 31, 2010

Urvish,
First kudos for the nice explanation for the topic.Science is such a deep ocean of knowledge, understanding, impression that, sometimes it takes time to find out its ill or good effect on society.
We can be judgemental on Hitler or his team for many things but due to his ill-will too (I do not support his thinkings) we today are able to see many things which could have been taken centuries to be invented or who knows, might not have been invented also, only GOD knows better.
Mr Neerav has rightly pointed out in his view about the real use by the people.
Best example for this Laser.

અખબારોએ જીવન સર્જાયું એવું ખોટું અર્થઘટન કરી સમાચાર છાપી નાખ્યા અને ચારે બાજુ વાહવાહ પણ થઇ. તમે હકીકત સમજાવી એ સારું કામ કર્યું. વધુમાં એકદમ જટિલ વિષય એકદમ સરળ રીતે સમજાવ્યો એ વધુ કમાલની વાત છે.

simply superb, man! sab se tez.. is baar safari se bhi..!
- Dhaivat