The Birthplace Of Medical Revolution While biotechnology is a very large field, its largest impact is in the medical field. Medicine has for a long time...
Innovation At The Core Of Healthcare The pharmaceutical industry has been built on the back of scientific innovation. The first innovators a century ago have turned...
The Importance Of Biotech And Healthcare Biotech and healthcare are massive parts of our economy. They are also literally vital to us whenever our bodies suffer...
The CRISPR Revolution There are hundreds and even thousands of diseases that have a root cause in genetics. Many of these are to this day untreatable...
The problem With Industrial Scale Production The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most complex on Earth, maybe together with the semiconductor industry. Not only do...
Patents And Generics The pharmaceutical industry is a business dominated by Intellectual Property (IP). Drug patents are a special category in IP laws, with their own...
The Difficult Art Of Surgery Surgery has been historically, and is still to this day, one of the most prestigious domains of medicine. It is in...
A Serious Concern Weight loss has been for decades a very lucrative market. From diet companies, to books describing magic solutions or food supplements supposed to...
The Plastic Age Plastic is an omnipresent material in modern life. We use it for packaging food and drink, and in manufacturing like making pipes, clothing,...
The Antibiotics Revolution Antibiotics might have been one of the most important medical technology ever invented. Before antibiotics, even a small cut or small infection could turn...
The CRISPR Revolution Biotechnology is often revolutionized by a mix of luck, genius, and hard work. One new technology can open entirely new horizons in biotech...
Solving Climate Change Climate change is becoming the central concern for most policies all over the world. A lot of proposed solutions look at it from...
Improving Health Consultation Medicine has always been centered on the patient-doctor relationship. Everyone can relate to the need to have a person listen to whatever is...
Life-Saving Organs A lot of biotech research is focused on fixing problems. It can be fighting off pathogens, repairing a damaged gene, or eliminating cancerous cells....
The Last Great Killer Over the last decades, modern medicine has accomplished miracles. Infectious diseases previously killed more people than any other cause, including old age....