Amateur DNA Combiners
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:00 pm
http://www.popsci.com/node/62448/?page=all
Patterson and homebrew biologists like her may form the body of a nascent synbio movement, but the architects of that movement still come almost entirely from academe. The most visible booster of synthetic biology is probably Drew Endy, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Young-looking, with slightly mussed sandy hair, Endy could easily be mistaken for a perpetual grad student. He coins hackerish jargon that sounds super-hip. If you listen carefully on the Stanford campus, maybe you’ll hear someone referring to the shifting of a gene from one life-form to another as “DNA bashing.”
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Reminded me of Tom and Doc B.
Patterson and homebrew biologists like her may form the body of a nascent synbio movement, but the architects of that movement still come almost entirely from academe. The most visible booster of synthetic biology is probably Drew Endy, a professor of bioengineering at Stanford University. Young-looking, with slightly mussed sandy hair, Endy could easily be mistaken for a perpetual grad student. He coins hackerish jargon that sounds super-hip. If you listen carefully on the Stanford campus, maybe you’ll hear someone referring to the shifting of a gene from one life-form to another as “DNA bashing.”
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Reminded me of Tom and Doc B.
