STORIES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RACING TO SAVE US

摘要

when wendell lim booted up his biophysical chemistry lab at UC San Francisco in 1996, he had no ambition to hack the human immune system. He was focused on more basic questions, like decoding the underlying logic of biology. Lim. who nearly majored in art at Harvard, sought answers through genetic engineering. For years he tinkered with yeast, inserting code into its DNA to make it do things never seen in nature.