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2022.
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Beginning in the 1970s, several scientific breakthroughs promised to transform the creation of new medicines. As investors sought to capitalize on these Nobel Prize-winning discoveries, the biotech industry grew to thousands of small companies around the world. Each sought to emulate what the major pharmaceutical companies had been doing for a century or more, but without the advantages of scale, scope, experience, and massive resources. Biotech companies...
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Dive into the Future of Feasting: Where Science Meets Your Dinner Plate
Prepare to be transported to a future where dinner grows in a lab, not a field. "Cultivated Cuisine: The Future of Lab-Grown Meat" offers a cutting-edge exploration of the revolutionary world of cellular agriculture. Attention: The book takes a thrilling plunge into the complexities of lab-grown meat, examining its scientific origins, environmental implications, and potential...
3) The troop
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2014.
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Everything changes when a haggard stranger in tattered clothing appears out of nowhere and collapses on the campers doorstep. Before the night is through, this stranger will end up infecting one of the troops own with a bioengineered horror thats straight out of their worst nightmares. Now stranded on the island with no communication to the outside world, the troop learns to battle much more than the elements, as they are pitted against something...
5) Designing Humans: How Gene Editing Can Bring Back Old Evils and Alter the Course of Human Evolution
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This short read analyses gene editing as a revolutionary new technology that could enable the design of new 'ideal' humans. What traits would be desirable? This kind of question links back to eugenic ideas that were popular in Europe in the early 1920s. Using visual communication and design references, 'Designing Humans' critiques past eugenic propaganda and speculates on its possible come back once genome editing enters the biotech market. Will the...
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Have you ever looked at movies depicting the future, both utopias and dystopias alike, and wondered, "Could that truly be our future?"In this book, we will be looking at how technology has progressed through the years to get a glimpse of the future. Here, you will learn how humans lived their lives in the past and how technology has influenced that way of life and transformed it into what it is today. We will also discuss certain turning points in...
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The straight scoop on choosing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system Doctors, nurses, and hospital and clinic administrators are interested in learning the best ways to implement and use an electronic health records system so that they can be shared across different health care settings via a network-connected information system. This helpful, plain-English guide provides need-to-know information on how to choose the right system,...
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