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"Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them"

LINNAEUS, 1797

"You cannot recall a new form of life"

ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972

Introduction

"The InGen Incident"

The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to co This enterprise has proceeded so rapidly-with so little outside commentary-that its dimensions and implications are hardly understood at all

Biotechnology proreatest revolution in human history By the end of this decade, it will have outdistanced atomic power and computers in its effect on our everyday lives In the words of one observer, "Biotechnology is going to transform every aspect of human life: our medical care, our food, our health, our entertainain It&039;s literally going to change the face of the planet"

But the biotechnology revolution differs in three important respects from past scientific transformations

First, it is broad-based Ale research institution, at Los Alah the efforts of about a dozen coy research is now carried out in more than two thousand laboratories in America alone Five hundred corporations spend five billion dollars a year on this technology