“Within a year, and without seeing Esfeldt's papers, biologists at UC San Diego had used CRISPR to insert gene drives into fruit flies. They called them mutagenic chain reactions. They had done their research in a chamber behind five doors.”

“In my office, right, I have this solid wall behind my desk. You have, you know, a solid behind you. And then I can see, like my door is, you know, sort of at an angle from me. So I can see anyone coming in. That just soothes the nervous system.”

“BA flies to around 80 countries, Virgin Atlantic just 15.”

“We harvest blueberries so early in the season that the degree days have not accumulated enough for the fruit fly to develop and infect the fruit.”

“If the fruit hasn’t fully matured the seeds won’t germinate well so those ones we pretty much just keep either the fruit for sale or keep it ourselves”