Peter Enyeart | Genome Editing Explaining my Research In my
research I take living things apart and put them together in new
ways. Though you might imagine me as Dr. Frankenstein when I say
that, in reality we don't have to go to the trouble of sewing
together dead bodies. As an example, imagine your favorite
Chinese restaurant. They have great lo mein, but you just wish
they would serve tacos, too. How would you get them to do that?
Would you cut a Mexican restaurant in two and attach it to the
Chinese restaurant? Would you just get a bunch of tacos and put
them in the restaurant? Those methods might get the job done,
but a simpler way might be to get a recipe for making tacos, and
convince the Chinese restaurant to include that recipe with
their other recipes. Living things are like restaurants in that
they contain a set of instructions. However, living things are
very unusual restaurants whose recipe books tells not just how
to make the food but how to build the entire restaurant and
everything in it. The