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How is a champion golfer like a genetic engineer?

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

Alina Chan is a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and a genetic engineer who began doing some of the most controversial research into the coronavirus from her home.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2021

In the new study, Hay’s former graduate student, genetic engineer Anna Buchman of the University of California, San Diego, set Medea on D. suzukii.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 23, 2018

Synthesis at prices comparable to sequencing would greatly accelerate synthetic biology, says Christopher Anderson, a genetic engineer at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Nature • May 18, 2011

His designs eventually intersect with those of a bona fide genetic engineer, with outrageous results.

From Time Magazine Archive