The history of humankind is marked with significant achievements, often
invention or discoveries that improve the human condition. What will
history write about these innovative days of biotechnology? Will it say
how we advanced to new heights? Our understanding and response to
serious disease? That we used biotechnology to meet and surpass the
world's ever-growing demand for food? And that we learned to produce
clean, renewable energy? Will history merely state the obvious:
Biotechnology is improving the human condition?