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...scientists want to push them off. Because researchers see the potential benefits of understanding embryonic stem cells as immense, they are intent on avoiding controversy over their use. Being linked with the human-cloning activists is their nightmare. Says Michael West, president of Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company that uses cloning technology to develop human medicines: "We're really concerned that if someone goes off and clones a Raelian, there could be an overreaction to this craziness?especially by regulators and Congress. We're desperately concerned?and it's a bad metaphor?about throwing the baby...
...scientists want to push them off. Because researchers see the potential benefits of understanding embryonic stem cells as immense, they are intent on avoiding controversy over their use. Being linked with the human-cloning activists is their nightmare. Says Michael West, president of Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company that uses cloning technology to develop human medicines: "We're really concerned that if someone goes off and clones a Raelian, there could be an overreaction to this craziness--especially by regulators and Congress. We're desperately concerned--and it's a bad metaphor--about throwing the baby...
...risk for all of us. Mainstream scientists are worried that with all these headlines, all this renegade research going on outside any boundaries of regulation or accountability, there is sure to be a backlash, and it could get in the way of some of the most promising avenues of biotech research...
...critics of agricultural biotechnology right? Is biotech's promise nothing more than overblown corporate hype? The papaya growers in Hawaii's Puna district clamor to disagree. In 1992 an epidemic of papaya ringspot virus threatened to destroy the state's papaya industry; by 1994, nearly half the state's papaya acreage had been infected, their owners forced to seek outside employment. But then help arrived, in the form of a virus-resistant transgenic papaya developed by Cornell University plant pathologist Dennis Gonsalves...
...real hopes for the long term are pinned to molecular biologists; they are best equipped to identify targets unique to fungi and to design drugs that will attack them and them alone. Tiny biotech companies and huge pharmaceutical firms alike are working on drugs that will kill off fungi by preventing enzymes from binding to DNA or by halting protein synthesis...