Familiarize yourself with the biotechnologies in the textbook readings and the presentation. (Recombinant DNA,

polymerase chain reaction, DNA fingerprinting, reproductive cloning, therapeutic cloning, transgenic organisms,

genomics, bioinformatics)
Familiarize yourself with science journalism for a layperson audience, such as that of http://www.livescience.com/

(Links to an external site.), http://www.sciencedaily.com/ (Links to an external site.), https://www.sciencenews.org/,

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/ (Links to an external site.) and many more.
Invent a fictitious, but biologically plausible, use of an existing biotechnology that we have learned about in our

course. This could be anything from the trendy new gene therapy tattoos fashion, to an athletic scandal involving

genetic doping, to the newest zoo exhibit of a de-extincted animal or a spectacular medical treatment, but you must

make sure to be able to explain the plausibility of the choice.

Write a news article from the year 2034 about the use of your fictitious use of biotechnology. Include in your article,

biological details about how scientists were able to accomplish this new achievement. Put this new achievement in

perspective with the historical context of the road leading up to this biotech and the potential next steps that

researches might take next (remember this is from 2034)