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All content by Photo by Ryan Riley/College of Engineering
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.

[Photo] ISU research project in plant genome editing leads to a promising new startup

by Jack McClellan, Reporter
Published August 27, 2025