Guest: Dr. Ron Evans, Professor and the March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology, Salk Institute.
Dr. Ron Evans discusses the genetic engineering of metabolism and the creation of a strain of super mice: the Marathon Mouse
Our two books of the week are My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane Goodall AND The Genome War: How Craig Venter Tried to Capture the Code of Life and Save the World by James Shreeve. For your free audio book visit Audible.com/Biotech.
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Also thanks to Philippe Pelletier and Will Hall for the great opening and closing themes AND