How many of us watched Jurassic Park or its sequel The Lost World and wondered how far away we were from such a visionan amusement park in which dinosaurs and other extinct species lived once again? Considering how many people are trying to replicate similar technology today, the answer is probably more than a few. [...]

Science-fiction films often present a stilted view of modern technologies, and biotechnology has not escaped cinema’s searching gaze. These films might not stand up to rigorous scientific study, but they do present fascinating questions about current technologies.Jurassic Park (1993): You know it would be on here, so we might as well get it out of [...]

Before 1990, it sounded like science fiction. Making a map of the nucleotides in a human genome? The only thing that sounded more impossible than the goal was its applications, whether in treating illnesses like breast cancer and cystic fibrosis or studying the theory of evolution. Yet in 1990, the Human Genome Project became a [...]

The term biopharmaceuticals gets thrown around a lot in modern newspaper articlesmost of the time, incorrectly. For a biopharmaceutical to be legitimate, it must come from a source other than a non-engineer living source. In the United States, biopharmaceuticals fall under the domain of the Food and Drug Administration, which monitors it for risks and [...]