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Article: Ultimate therapy: commercial eugenics in the 21st century.(a prescription for the world: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH)
- Article from:
- Harvard International Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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While the 20th century was shaped largely by spectacular breakthroughs in the fields of physics and chemistry, the 21st century will belong to the biological sciences. Scientists around the world are quickly deciphering the genetic code of life, unlocking the mystery of millions of years of biological evolution on Earth. Global life science companies, in turn, are beginning to exploit the new advances in biology in a myriad of ways, laying the economic framework for the coming Biotech Century.
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Genes are the raw resource of the new economic epoch and are already being used in a variety of international business fields--including ...