#biotech-innovation

#biotech-innovation

Colossal Biosciences, valued at $10.2bn after raising hundreds of millions of dollars in funding from investors including celebrities spanning from Tiger Woods to Paris Hilton, has provoked a stampede of acclaim as well as denunciation after announcing last year it had made the dire wolf, a species lost from the world for more than 10,000 years, de-extinct via the birth of three new pups.

Younger adults and older adults tend to experience the highest levels of loneliness of any age group, so the goal of this project is to inspire generational connection through meaningful conversations, despite differences in age, lifestyle, or politics.

Increasingly, patents have become proxies for achieving unrelated policy objectives-from reducing drug prices to constraining certain industries. The WIPO Treaty continues this trend by burdening the patent system with social and political aims that fall outside its purpose. The likely outcome is weakened protection for biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovation, especially for discoveries derived from genetic resources or traditional knowledge. The result would be less research investment and slower progress in precisely those areas where humanity benefits most-healthcare, sustainability, and food security.