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Science, Interrupted: Part 2

Distillations: Science + Culture + History by Science History Institute

Jul 30, 202544:24Science & Medicine

Genetic engineering breakthroughs in the late 1960s and early 1970s came with a lot of promise—and peril too. Fears about what could happen with recombinant DNA experiments put scientists in the middle of a moral dilemma...

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Science, Interrupted: Part 2 is an episode from Distillations: Science + Culture + History by Science History Institute. Genetic engineering breakthroughs in the late 1960s and early 1970s came with a lot of promise—and peril too. Fears abo...

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Published Jul 30, 2025, 44:24 long, audio available.

Science, Interrupted: Part 2

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