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Maxine Singer, guiding force at the birth of biotechnology, dies at 93
The experiments allowed scientists to study genes in living cells. But some of the new organisms contained cancer-causing genes, and no one understood the new science well enough to know whether the lab-made microbes were safe. Although discussed among …