Possible dangers of recombinant DNA, Paul Berg
Interviewee: Paul Berg. Possible dangers of recombinant DNA.
And then there were a series of "what-ifs" if you will, people imagined of how this could be dangerous. Could you put a toxin gene clostridium botulinum toxin gene into E. coli, then you might have an E. coli that's producing a dangerous toxin and that would certainly be undesirable.
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