NZ707B @NZ707B@qoto.org

"It was late in 1972 — a year in which the science of genetic engineering really began to sizzle — that two California researchers announced the unusually tidy transfer of genetic information from one bacterium to another with help from a specialized enzyme. It was a scientifically heralded result, but behind the hoopla was just one small catch. The information transferred enabled a common human disease bacterium, E. coli, to resist not just one antibiotic, but two.

“Alarm bells should have rung,” writes @matthewcobb, in his deeply researched and often deeply troubling history of gene science."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/books/review/as-gods-matthew-cobb.html