This animation was produced by Massive and the Director of Sciences at Pioneer Works, Janna Levin. The beautiful animation was hand-cut and filmed by director and artist Andrew Benincasa.

Massive co-founder Nadja Oertelt interviewed Caltech biologist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, David Baltimore, for this animated piece. Baltimore helped assemble and run the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, held the same year he won the Nobel. His work along with others at MIT led to the discovery of reverse transcriptase and retroviruses, eventually up-ending a central dogma in molecular biology of information flow within the cell.

The video was produced in collaboration with Sciences at Pioneer Works for the Scientific Controversies series. David Baltimore and Feng Zhang will discuss genetic engineering with Janna Levin, Director of Science at Pioneer Works on Friday, April 13, 2018. The event is free and open to the public with an RSVP.