Eugene Koonin’s Continued Role in CRISPR, by Way of Yogurt
BY CHRISTOPHER WANJEK, OD
If Streptococcus thermophilus could erect statues, they’d do so to Eugene Koonin, a man responsible for saving untold trillions of their yogurt-making kind.
Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, can’t always get to the NIH Research Festival in Bethesda so they hold their own—called NIEHS Science Days.