Thedevelopmentandapplication of bacterialmutationtechniqueoffersnewtoolsforresearch on new bacterial vaccine, bacterial geneticfunction and genetictherapy etc.
Universality, costliness and genetic control all suggest that music has a clear function in survival or reproduction, and Dr Miller plumps for reproduction.
At the time scientists inside and outside the EPA unanimously agreed that the test posed negligible risk. (I wrote the analysis submitted by the Food and Drug Administration.) No new genetic material had been added--only a single gene whose function was well known had been removed--and the organism was obviously harmless.
Vertex already sells a drug called Kalydeco, which causes unprecedented improvements in the lung function of patients with cystic fibrosis if it is caused by a genetic mutation called G551D.