Hadyn parry biography

I remember sitting in a classroom during a summer course on synthetic biology and questioning just how much of this was science fiction and how much was interesting research that would never make it out of Nature (the journal) and into, well, nature. The day where something as odd as the glow-in-the-dark e coli they kept showing us would be released into the wild seemed so far away, and much more likely to be the premise of the next dystopian movie rather than a well-understood and even a widely-approved piece of applied science.That’s when the teacher brought up Oxitec.By then, the company had been around for around 10 years, and had already accomplished something amazing: their transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes had been released in Brazil, and had driven down the population of this multi-disease vector by 80 to 95%. Their “living insecticide” was not only a brilliant example of applied synthetic biology, it also happened to be on