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Genetic Engineering Is More Art Than Science
Every year, students from all over the world spend their summer trying to engineer biology to be technology. They teach bacteria how to play sudoku. They make multi colored spider silk and tissue printers. How can something artificial be alive? Psynthetic biologists sort of poke holes in that boundary that we draw between what is natural and what's technological.