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Medical history This week in 1978, U.S. scientists announced the production of human-type insulin by a strain of E. coli bacteria, that had been genetically engineered after months of creative gene-splicing.
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Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Befitting its gene-splicing premise, Resurrection actually cross-pollinates the distinctive voices of two very different filmmakers, daring to ask what an Alien movie from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the director of City of Lost Children would look like.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
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Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Befitting its gene-splicing premise, Resurrection actually cross-pollinates the distinctive voices of two very different filmmakers, daring to ask what an Alien movie from the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the director of City of Lost Children would look like.
—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
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“Gene-splicing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gene-splicing. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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gene-splicing
noun
gene-splic·ing
ˈjēn-ˈsplī-siŋ 
: the process of preparing recombinant DNA
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