Are Ebola Drug Researchers Developing ‘Death Drugs’ That Could Wipe Out Humanity?

Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 08:02 in Biology & Nature

Credit: Institute of Responsible TechnologyBy Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project It’s perplexing that strident anti-GMO critics who regularly harp on the “danger” of harvesting a “foreign” gene from one species and inserting into another to improve crop performance or nutrition are mostly silent when the exact same process is used to engineer new drugs. The Ebola crisis and the desperate search for viable treatments highlights that oddity. read more

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