Biotech Benefits Not To Be Sneezed At

BIOTECHNOLOGISTS must be a frustrated lot. They devote their time to applying the leaps in understanding of genetic and cellular biology to practical advances that can benefit humanity (it is reasonable to suppose that that is the motivation of the majority). Yet the greater their power to do so, the deeper public suspicion. Many people reject genetic manipulation of living things as unnatural, seemingly oblivious of the fact that the rise of civilisation depended on the manipulation, albeit slow ...