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 [...]