Genetic Engineering Is Not Science but Science and Venture Capital

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In the eighties there was a great influx of venture capital into biotech creation of lots and lots of startups in the hope of both make you a great product but also getting filthy rich. The first discovery been made by poor burger won a Nobel prize for it then kind of eighteen months later her boy and Stanley Cohen uh... came up with a what we now ended up calling cloning. They patented that method and boy a set up genentech and became when it went public in nineteen eighty became multi-millionaire overnightbut carried on working the lab. In other words it with genetic engineering instead of science mad scientist using this to take over the world they just want to make money well i think i

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.