The exciting thing about recombinant DNA, Victor McElheny
Victor McElheny. Former science journalist Victor McElheny muses on the excitement that surrounded the new genetic technology. (DNAi Location: Manipulation > Revolution > Players > The controversy > A new world of exploration)
And here we have a new technology for the manipulation of genetic material which is like a, like a telescope essentially, you can now magnify enormously amounts of something in order to study it more precisely. That was a, from my point of view the really exciting thing about the emergence of the new technology was that it opened a whole world of new exploration.
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