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Part 1 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#297)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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What's Wrong With Gain of Function?

David Wheeler: I want to push back on some of the pushback maybe that you got recently on all in for your conversation about COVID-19. What's wrong with gain of function? He says protein engineering is a ubiquitous tool set used in labs, academic, research, and commercial labs around the world. Wheeler: Evolution has driven the development of proteins that do all of these incredible things in biology. And we now use those to try and do new things.

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