Our Biotech Future

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. Two facts about the coming century are agreed on by almost everyone. Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Jul 1, 2007 - 8:09 AM PDT
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by Stephen Quatrano - Oct. 1, 2008

Good journalism? Not so sure... But definitely good science writing. This essay needs to be read as it was intended: as a provocative opinion piece designed to stimulate thinking about our present and our future vis-a-vis advances in Biotech.

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