"Sometimes you have to suffer for your art. Take, for example, a pair of artists who will are trying to extract DNA from the author William S. Burroughs' preserved poop. They want to create a 'mutant sculpture' for their forthcoming exhibit, 'Mutate or Die: a W.S. Burroughs Biotechnological Bestiary,' and plan to fire DNA-covered gold dust from a device called a gene gun into a mélange of sperm, blood and more excrement. But will this effort even work?"