March 6, 2010
Bill Gates reviews a provocative book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, about agricultural biotechnology.
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March 1, 1999
Biotechnology is an emerging field that has long-term ramifications for our world over the next century. It could very well surpass the Information Technology of our last decade in both scope, impact, and monetary value. Biotech is already having an impact on our world. As we noted in our last issue, ‘supermice’ have been engineered which grow twice as fast, to twice the size, as their peers, and moreover pass those genes on to their offspring. We have thus been able to create a new ‘breed’ of mice—and we can do the same thing for other species as well. Further, [...]
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