In the 1980s, hundreds of biotechnology firms were established with the express intent of becoming fully integrated pharmaceutical…
“A live, human-made microorganism is patentable.”
In 1944, near the end of World War II, an eighteen-year-old University of Geneva…
Dennis Gillings has always been a risk taker. In 1982, he gave up a secure career as a professor at a top university to build Quintiles, the biostatistical consulting company he had…
As the 2014 Ebola outbreak claimed lives in West Africa and threatened to spread beyond its region of origin, many…
George Poste is a big picture guy. He believes that progress in science and medicine requires understandings of complex wholes, and that reductionism is foolhardy. “With reductionism,” he says, “you delude…
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