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Memo 26 What, no titles? Abstract A: Any lab in particular that you think might be of interest? I'm wondering how much intermixing of human and animal stem cell material takes place? It's tough to get a grasp of intermixing without a concrete practice or place to think about. Where are the chiasmas, where are the chimeras? Abstract B: This seems to be a great opportunity to bring in a comparative perspective on the labs that strictly used private money (and could thus avoid a great deal of the ethical tension) and those using federal dollars (and thus getting immersed in the tension post-Bush decision). Also, other countries have dissimilar stances on these issues, how do these play out in the discourse coming out of the "out of lab" scientists?

Memo 27 What, no take on why he got started down the circuitous path? No mention of family members or friends with debilitating diseases? Any sense of the background of this individual that might shape how he things and what he does, e.g. white male atheist republican vegetarian?

Memo 28 I feel like this prose would be better situated as a poem that opens or closes a section. The format might lend itself better to reader interpretation of their own conceptions about monsters and madness. Another potentially visual clue that plays of the 'mundaness' would be to give the egg a catalog number, reducing the monster to an assumed one of many and not to be considered one egg from one subject getting turned into something entirely different...

Memo 30 Considering the number of politicians that have weighed in on this issue would they be considered a third category of people, neither public or science network? Alternatively, what work happens in the meetings between scientists and public officials? There seems to be as much ethical and economical entrepreunership happening within government spheres as in the lab...