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How did a few labs in the San Francisco area transform our relationship to life itself?

Guidelines for Hybrid DNA Molecules - Maxine Singer and Dieter Soll - Science, 1973

Potential Biohazards of Recombinant DNA Molecules - Berg et al., Science, 1974

Electron Micrograph of plasmid DNA, 1967

Valentine remembered for visionary thinking that transformed agriculture - Trina Kleist, 2023

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How did a few labs in the San Francisco area transform our relationship to life itself?

Guidelines for Hybrid DNA Molecules - Maxine Singer and Dieter Soll - Science, 1973

Potential Biohazards of Recombinant DNA Molecules - Berg et al., Science, 1974

Electron Micrograph of plasmid DNA, 1967

Valentine remembered for visionary thinking that transformed agriculture - Trina Kleist, 2023