Bored and still a bit hungry after their conference dinner one night, they walked to a New York–style deli, with a neon sign reading “Shalom” rather than the usual “Aloha,” in a strip mall near Waikiki Beach. Over pastrami sandwiches, they brainstormed how to combine their discoveries to create a method for engineering and manufacturing new genes. They agreed to work together on the idea, and within four months they had spliced together DNA fragments from different organisms and cloned millions of them, giving birth to the field of biotechnology and launching the genetic engineering
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