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How is a champion golfer like a genetic engineer?

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

Volumnia Gaul: The psychopathic genetic engineer and true mastermind of the Hunger Games takes her first name from a fictional character in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus: the title character’s mother.

From Slate • May 22, 2020

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