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“We are on the verge of a revolution in the chemical basis of medicine,” says Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Arthur Kornburg. What is causing the revolution? Gene-splicing, a new technology that has already produced insulin and interferon from bacteria, and made overnight millionaires of research scientists. How does gene-splicing work? What can it do? What are the dangers?

3 ARE SCIENTISTS REDESIGNING LIFE?

4 PROTEINS, GENES AND YOU

7 PROMISES AND PLASMIDS

8 HOW DO YOU SPLICE A GENE?

9 GENE-SPLICING, INC.​—A RISKY BUSINESS?