What: "Bacteria are like little DNA factories," she explains. "You always need a supply of stock DNA to work with." Her job included growing colonies of bacteria, then purifying the DNA from it. The DNA was sometimes injected into the cells of mice to see how altering a gene affected their development, so Sunny had to tend large colonies of laboratory mice, a task that did not thrill her. "Lab mice are not very sweet," she says. "But I guess I can't blame them."

Writer: Sunny Hwang

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Date: Oct 25 2013 5:07 PM