Designer dragons and transgenic triffids

November 17, 2015

Sean May from our School of Biosciences discussed the genetic imagination in his recent Popular Culture lecture.  How might we build a dragon? Or dinosaur? Or triffid? First we need to set some design parameters: Feathered serpents are found in the myths, religions and heraldry of all populated continents: From Quetzalcoatl in the Aztec west; through …