“The Birth of Biotech” is on display on the ground floor of the American History Museum through April 2014.

“We are at an inflection point in the history of life sciences ... Nearly 100 UCSF inventions were licensed to biotech firms to begin development in the same year. Image: An early 2012 schematic of a ...

At this stage of history, crops were being transported ... but has also been very controversial. In agricultural biotechnology, changes are made directly to the plant's genome.

But most of the recent news has been dismaying for those who keep hoping that biotechnology will start learning from its own history that it has an image problem. Earlier this year, three different ...