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Biotechnology for pleasure and profit

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Health care is all very well, but can biotechnology improve the quality of life as well as its quantity?

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Bains, W. Biotechnology for pleasure and profit. Nat Biotechnol 11, 1243–1247 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1193-1243

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