The idea of a reduced genome "is attractive from a safety and manufacturing point of view," says David Schoenhaut, director of technology affairs at Nucleonics, a biotech company based in Horsham, PA.
These combined perspectives provide an ideal barometer of current technology affairs.
Zhou Chuangbing became president of Nanchang University in 2013 after spearheading science and technology affairs at Wuhan University in Hubei province for more than a decade.
It was no high-technology affair.
As he saw it, beginning in the early 20th century, increasing complexity in science, technology, economic affairs and government meant that the "old" moneyed class no longer had the expertise to directly manage the work process or steer the ship of state.
Increasingly, they also want them to come steeped in matters more suited to the changing times especially information technology, global affairs and modern finance.For a start, the advisory council wants to pare down the number of examinations that Japanese schoolchildren have to sit.
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Of course, I don't really expect the earth to reverse its spin when that happens, but such an honor might at least confirm two things: that the coverage of science-and technology-related affairs is of critical importance; and that reading about it, in our pages and elsewhere, is accepted and enjoyed by not only the cognoscenti but the general public.
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