a .22 shell is used to fire stainless-steel projectiles dipped in a DNA solution at a stem or leaf of the target plant. If all goes well, some of the DNA will pierce the wall of some of the cells' nuclei and elbow its way into the double helix: a bully breaking into a line dance. If the new DNA happens to land in the right place-and no one yet knows what, or where, that place is-the plant grown from that cell will express the new gene. That's it? That's it.
( Michael Pollan )
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