Bobby Waddell shares a story from Haiti, some years ago: It was in Port-au-Prince that he and a couple of colleagues were held up by two youths with guns demanding the keys of their car as they left the Holiday Inn Hotel. When Waddell threw the keys to the ground, one of the gunmen fired […]

The New York Times explains. It involves bacteria producing loops of DNA, transcription into strands of mRNA, quality control at every stage. A year ago I’d have expected to read this in a science fiction novel. Today, in The NY Times. Fascinating. Also important, because until all are safe. No one is.