Summary
On the kitchen table of his cramped apartment, Josiah Zayner is performing the feat that is transforming biology.
In tiny vials, he’s cutting, pasting and stirring genes, as simply as mixing a vodka tonic. Next, he slides his new hybrid creations, living in petri dishes, onto a refrigerator shelf next to the vegetables.
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“You’ve got guys with B.S. degrees, in a garage,” warned Hank Greely, director of Stanford’s Center for Law and the Biosciences at an international summit of the National Academy of Sciences this month.
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