A better gene gun (IMAGE)

Iowa State University

A better gene gun

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Iowa State engineers, left to right, Connor Thorpe and Shan Jiang helped invent the "Flow Guiding Barrel," which improves gene gun performance for the genetic modification of plants. Jiang is holding a Flow Guiding Barrel. A gene gun is on the left.

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Photo by Ryan Riley/Iowa State University College of Engineering

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