biotech
Chemo is our best response to cancer so far. A novel new therapy could render it obsolete.
Microbes screened with a new microfluidic process might be used in power generation or environmental cleanup.
They’re fun, so why not? Well, maybe because they’re often inscrutable.
As costs go down and the benefits become more clear, can we afford not to eat lab-grown meat?
Harvard bioethics specialist Glenn Cohen considers the complex question of whether humans should mix their genetic material with other animals to create chimeras.
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The U.S. Supreme Court determined that biotechnology companies are not allowed to patent genes. The Court has not gone far enough.