Renowned biologist and philosopher Robert Pollack reflects on his concern over the potential danger of Janet Mertz's experiment inserting a cancer-causing gene from a monkey virus into a bacterium that lives in humans.
Protein tyrosine phosphatase, non-receptor type 5 (striatum-enriched), is also known as STEP (striatum-enriched phosphatase) or A0118, and the gene resides on human chromosome 11.