Ridecamp: Re: [RC] Bioengineered Endurance Athletes?

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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