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“We are on the verge of a revolution in the chemical basis of medicine,” says Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Arthur Kornburg. What is causing the revolution? Gene-splicing, a new technology that has already produced insulin and interferon from bacteria, and made overnight millionaires of research scientists. How does gene-splicing work? What can it do? What are the dangers?
3 ARE SCIENTISTS REDESIGNING LIFE?
4 PROTEINS, GENES AND YOU
7 PROMISES AND PLASMIDS
8 HOW DO YOU SPLICE A GENE?
9 GENE-SPLICING, INC.—A RISKY BUSINESS?
