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Andrew Hessel: biotechnology is not that simple

Could the human genome be programmed as if it were a computer? Could we one day slow ageing or diagnose diseases and create vaccines and medicines in record time? The geneticist and pioneer in synthetic biology, Andrew Hessel, gives us some of the answers.

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