Meet the Plant Hacker Creating Flowers Never Seen (or Smelled) Before

The money he earned doing that was enough to put Cocioba through the first couple of years of a biology degree at Stony Brook University. A Petunia bioengineered by Sebastian Cocioba, a plant biotechnology researcher who works out of his home laboratory in Huntington, New York on October 30, 2024. The flowers were bioengineered by Sebastian Cocioba, a plant biotechnology researcher who works out of his home laboratory. “It ended in heartbreak, of course, because we couldn’t execute on it.” A close-up view of Petunia tissue culture grown by Sebastian Cocioba, a plant biotechnology researcher based in Huntington, New York on October 30, 2024. Lanna Apisukh Test tubes of frozen DNA and plant enzymes inside the home laboratory of Sebastian Cocioba, a plant biotechnology researcher based in Huntington, New York on October 30, 2024.