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...trials of pharmaceutical crops have taken place in 14 states, from Hawaii to Maryland. A Texas firm is selling a corn-bred enzyme that stimulates insulin production in diabetics. Clinical trials have begun for experimental crop-grown drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and hepatitis B. "Molecular farming represents the pharmaceutical industry's best opportunity to strike a serious blow against such global diseases as AIDS, Alzheimer's and cancer," says Francois Arcand, president of the Conference on Plant-Made Pharmaceuticals, held in Quebec City earlier this year...
Rachel M.S. Anderson is a fourth-year graduate student in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University...
...nanobots" that have stirred Prince Charles' concern. But most nanoscientists believe that such devices, if they're viable at all, are decades away. "The idea that they are going to take over biological systems is absolutely silly," says Jim A. Thomas, a Royal Society University fellow who is researching molecular self-assembly, suggesting that even if self-replication were possible it's likely to be on a scale that's pretty harmless. A more realistic fear, at least for many who actually work in the field, is that unfounded panic could hold back important research. That's not good enough...
...research - even if it is in itself safe and ethical - simply because of unease about where it might lead? Should we go slow in some areas, or leave some doors of possibility permanently closed? Should we restrict science's traditional freedom of inquiry and international openness? In 1975, prominent molecular biologists did just that by proposing a moratorium on what were then novel types of gene splicing experiments. This moratorium soon came to seem unduly cautious, but that doesn't mean that it was unwise at the time, since the risk was then genuinely uncertain. But it would...
...Cambridge research facilities, Fishman said he wanted chemists working with molecular biologists, and signal pathway specialists—who understand what goes on inside a cell—working with the people who know how get a compound inside...