An agricultural engineer born of Japanese parents, Mr Fujimori was a political unknown until weeks before the vote.

BBC: Alberto Fujimori in file photo from 1999

Mark A. Moser is president and agricultural engineer at RCM Digesters.

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At the college library one day, he read a journal article by the late Jay Bailey , a Caltech chemical engineer who was trying to use genetic engineering to fashion "designer" bacteria to produce drugs, agricultural products and industrial chemicals.

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