Understanding the Frankenstein Tradition

So in the 1950s, Miller Urey did their fantastic chemical Frankenstein experiment, where they did the equivalent in the chemical world.

I have a brother in law who's an expert on horror and terror he wrote the Annotated Dracula, the Essential Frankenstein he was trained as a Chaucer scholar, but he was born in Transylvania and I think it affected him a little bit.

So said Dr. Victor Frankenstein when his creation was complete. Researchers have long been fascinated with trying to create life, but mainly they have had to settle for crafting variations of living organisms via mutation or other techniques of genetic engineering.amp 160

And the more we talked about how great it was to increase science literacy, the more they wanted to talk about us creating the next Frankenstein, and as a result, for the next six months, when you Googled my name, instead of getting my scientific papers, you got this.