Keynote speaker on global trends, author of 16 Futurist books - Patrick Dixon.
BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
The thought of catching a cold and then getting cancer is horrifying. Such a scenario has come a big step closer - British scientists trying to make new mutant superbugs out of human cancer genes and viruses closely related to strains causing common cold. Although designed to help find cancer cure, the possibility of accidental escape is alarming.
Even more worrying is the thought that a hundred similar or more dangerous experiments may be going on that we have yet to find out about with military or terrorist use as biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction.
Read more: Germ warfare - mutant bugs could wipe out human life - Biotech Keynote Speaker
BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
More than a bag of biodata - The mystery of life.Making new kinds of animals, plants or even humans is within our grasp using gene technology and British companies are leading the way. One such company is British Biotech (Archive 1994).
Read more: You are more than a bag of biodata
BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
Human genes for breakfast? You may one day be eating steak, chicken, pork or lamb made from human and animal genes. Genes are the building blocks of life. They control eye colour, height, intelligence, and a million other things that make us human.
Archive 1994
Read more: Humanised pork chops, scorpion poison salad and rubber tomatos
BioTech and MedTech Keynote Speaker
Frankenstein goes shopping. Designer food - Co-op food retailing group announced a ban on selling beef, pork or other meat with added human genes. They also banned "superveg" containing genes from animals, and committed to labelling all foods where new genes have been added from other species.
Read more: Scorpion poison genes added to cabbages kill caterpillers