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May FRONTIER TECHNOLOGY QUARTERLY 2019. Playing with genes: The good, the bad and the ugly Genetic technologies1 the ability to manipulate and trans- risks posed by these technologies for increasing inequities in form the properties of cells, seeds, microbes, insects, plants, health outcomes and their potential misuse and abuse. animals and even humans are pushing the frontiers of science and offers us new hope for disease control and cure. I. The good This field has come a long way since Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, first postulated the rule of heredity in the Genetic technologies are offering new solutions for disease 1850s.
The cost of sequencing genes has declined dramat- ically—from nearly $9 million in 2007 to just $1,100 per genome in 2017—due to a revolutionary technology called Next Generation
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