Feeding Our Deepest Fears

Feeding our Deepest FearsThe Shot Heard Round the PlanetJohn Sanford, a 34-year-old Cornell University professor, had two things on his mind in the fall of 1983. The first was how to transfer DNA from one living cell to another--an urgent mission for his lab, since the U.S. Supreme Court had recently decided that life-forms could be patented, owned and marketed for profit. The second was how to protect his home in a leafy neighborhood of lthaca, New York from squirrels, specifically the aggressi...