Writes about the techniques of modern biology — sequencing, editing, synthesis — with the practical detail that survives the move from a review paper to a bench: efficiencies, controls, and the steps where projects usually stop.
How CRISPR finds one address in three billion letters, why the scissors were never the innovation, and why a precise edit is a screening campaign rather than an operation.
Biotechnology explained through the four things you can now do to a genome, the order the field acquired them, and what each one unlocked.
