That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
don't forget medicine. technology like this allows us to induce plants, animals, bacteria, etc to produce medicine for us, which will inevitably get patented and screw over the people who need the drugs.
That already happens. Insulin is made with genetically modified yeast bacteria and the genes get patented so these companies can charge exorbitant prices.
That’s true but the nice thing about that is there are many solutions to the same problem (different gene pathway actors, unpatented orthologs, different vector designs) which generally won’t hold up to ip law in court. It’s also not captured like copyright so generics are much easier to provide after a few years. The main issue there is educating the doctors against the pharma company’s paid marketers to benefit the patient.