PINPOINT ACCURACY IN GENETIC ENGINEERING, AND THE GOLD BUG

Yesterday I talked about the “gold bug,” the little cupriavidus metallidurans bacterium that literally eats toxic metals and poops out 24 karat gold. There, I raised the possibility that such a phenomenon represented an alchemical technology that, with “enough money and manpower” could be turned to more industrial scale “production.” As I also noted in [...]