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Martina Newell-McGloughlin

Director,

Di t UC S t id Biotech Research

Systemwide Bi t h R h

and Education Program

http://ucbrep.info

What is

Biotechnology?

• Biotechnology is a series of enabling

technologies,

technologies which involves the manipulation of

living organisms or their sub-cellular

components to develop useful

– (insulin)

Products (i i )

– Processes (improved fermentation)

– Services (bioremediation)



• Biotechnology encompasses a wide range of

fields, including th lif i h it

fi ld i l di the life sciences, chemistry,

agriculture, environmental science, medicine,

veterinary medicine, engineering and computer

i

science.

Biotechnology Applications

• Industrial applications: Enzymes, Food, Feedstocks, Fuels,

Microbiological mining, Biosensors



Agriculture

• A i lt

– Plant: Crops, Horticulture, Forestry (Food, Feed and

Fiber), Diagnostics

Animal: M l P lt Fish (F d Ph i

– A i l Mammal, Poultry, Fi h (Food, Pharming, ModelM d l

systems)



• Environment: Low impact alternatives, Pollution

amelioration, Biomass conversion, Detection and analysis

systems



• Medical

– Human: Therapeutics, Diagnostics, Intervention regimens

– Animal: Therapeutics, Diagnostics

• Forensics

– Legal

– Personal

Biotechnology is not new

• 6500 BC Encrusted residue in the shards of a hunter-

gatherer camp unearthed in 1983 by Edinburgh

archaeologist - Neolithic heather beer



• 4000 BC Tigris-Euphrates cradle of civilization -

viticulture established. Babylonia beer a more

popular drink - climate more suited to growing grains

than grapes. In Mesopotamia 40% of cereal

production went into beer production.



• 3000 BC Celts independently discover the art of

Pliny Western

brewing -Pliny the elder notes: “Western nations

intoxicate themselves by means of moistened grain”



• Katz,

Solom Katz anthropologist suggests that these

discoveries led to the transformation from hunting

gathering to agricultural societies about 10,000 year.

• Industrial biotechnology applications have led to

cleaner processes with lower production of wastes

and lower energy consumption

• 90% of the enzymes used in large scale for

commercial applications result from the

exploitation of rDNA methods in the manufacturing

process or for the improvement of the catalysts

themselves.

• Industrial Applications:

– Food: human and animal

– Cleaning

– Textiles

p paper

– Pulp and p p

– Leather and Tanning

– Fuels

– Chemicals

– Metals, minerals and energy.

Following are from “trusted” Sources?

• FAO? World Bank? Ecology Groups?

• FAO: global demand for food 2.5 –3X in

poorest countries by2050 (FAO, Rome).



• 17% of land under cultivation degraded

by human activity from 1945 to 1990. Ag

land shrinks by 20,000 hectares yearly.

(World Bank, 1997)

• Without yield increase land use will

1997 acreage double by 2050

Without t d ti it Chi /I di

• With t greater productivity China/India

will need 4X land area

• Latin America: greatest yield increase

had lower land use (less deforestation)

• High yield “land sparing” better than

“wildlife”-friendly inefficient land use

farming

(Green, Royal Soc. Bird Protection &

African Society Ornithology 2005)

Is Agriculture natural?



8,000 BC Cultivation

19thC Selective Cross breeding

Ea 20th C Cell culture

Md 20th C Somaclonal variation

1930s Embryo rescue

1940s Mutagenesis and selection

1950s

1950 A th culture

Anther lt

1970s Recombinant DNA

1980 Marker assisted selection

1990s ---omics - Bioinformatics

2000s Systems Biology

21st C Epigenetics/RNAi/Paramutation

Adaptive technology/transgenomics

p gy g

Wide Crosses



Tomatoes are members of th

T t b f the

Deadly nightshade family



Lycopersicon

chmielewskii







• High solids = More

sauce: Two L. esculentum

approaches one end:

“Natural” cross with

high solanine “toxic”

wild tomato



• Using antisense,

Back-

switch off existing

g

cross

gene – no

series

introgression of genes

from the toxic plant Tomato Cultivar

Biotech Crops –”process” regulation

Commercialization: 7 to 10 years -at least 9 review stages

• C i li ti t tl t i t

• Biotech crops and foods more thoroughly tested than

conventional varieties ( “assumed” to be safe)- One

1,800

biotech soybean subjected to 1 800 separate analyses

• 23 feeding studies - dairy, beef, poultry, soy/corn equivalent in

composition, digestibility and feeding value to non-GM. Clarke et al

000

2000



• Product description (7 items) - Substantial equivalence with

parent variety - Molecular characterization (17)

• Toxicity studies (as necessary) (5) - Antibiotic resistance marker

genes (4) - Nutritional content (7+)- Allergenicity potential -

Anti-nutritional effects - Protein digestibility

• Environmental aspects (5 items)- Ecological impact (5 items)



Recent studies

Wheat ( Baker 2006), Potato (Catchpole 2005)



Transcriptomic and Metabolomic studies show greater variation between conventional

bred cultivars and even growth locations than between GM and parental variety (except

of course for the intended modification!) - differences between sites were generally

greater than differences between lines

Biotech part of a sustainable future

CO2



Renewable

Resources

Biofuels

Feedstocks

Value Bioremediation

Plants as Factories

Pharmaceuticals/ Industrial products

(Ventria – Rice Lactoferin Lysozyme

Peru 30% Less Diarrhea, Quicker

recovery 3/6 days, 1/3 less recurrence

Quality Traits - ($210B by 2010)

Shelf life –

Improved Nutrition –Improved Functionality

Macro: protein, oils, carbs, fibre

Micro: Vitamins, minerals,

Agronomic Traits – $30B Phytochemicals Antioxidants

Ph t h i l – A ti id t

Biotic/ Abiotic Stress /Yield Remove Antinutrients/allergens/ Toxins

1st Wave 2nd Wave 3rd Wave 4th Wave

Biotech Crop Countries and Mega-Countries (2006)









(James, 2007)

• p

Biotech Crops 2006: 252 M acres ( )

(102 M hts)

• 22 countries (11 LDC) 13% increase over 2005

• 10.3 M farmers up from 8.5 M in 2005

• cotton

90% resource-poor LDC farmers (9.3 M -7.7 M 2005) most BtSource: ISAAA

Retrospective/ prospective 1996- 2006

996 o 006 60X c e se, g es dop o e

– 1996 to 2006 60 increase, highest adoption rate

of any crop technology (James, 2007)

– 10.3 M farmers up 8.5 M 90% resource-poor LDC

billion

– Net economic benefits cumulative $27 billion.

– Pesticide spraying down by 380 M lbs (172 M Kg.)

Environmental footprint of pesticide use by 14%.

– GM reduction in 9.4 billion kg of CO2 emissions in 2004

equivalent removing 5 M cars from the roads. (Brookes 2005)

– Herbicide-Tolerance - increase in no- till: reduction in

erosion, soils much healthier, organic matter, less soil

compaction, fuel use down by 20 gals/acre

– CP papaya saved Hawaii papaya industry (and helped

organic farmers!)

– China BT rice pesticide use down 80% lives saved

– 90% reduction in mycotoxin fungi produce fumonisins

– Blight-resistant potato -UI study concluded for the major

potato-producing regions of the world would be $4.3 B

• Crop production i li it d by salinity on

C d ti is limited b li it

40 % world's irrigated land and on 25

% USA about 1/5 California.



• Blumwald and Zhang genetically

engineered tomato plants that produce

higher levels of a "transport protein.“



• Plants grow and produce fruit even in

irrigation water that is > 50X saltier

than normal. > 1/3 salty as seawater.



Nature Biotech, July 31, 2001

Typed i 10 f

T h

d in 10- font, one human sequence would ld

stretch more than 5,000 miles. Digitally

formatted, can be stored on one CD-ROM.

Biologically encoded, it fits within a single cell.



• Genomics: the analysis of genomes. A genome can be thought of as the

complete set of DNA sequences that codes for the hereditary material that is

passed on from generation to generation. These DNA sequences include all of

g (the

the genes ( functional and p y y)

physical unit of heredity)

• Comparative genomics Info from one organism can have application in another

• Transcriptomics: analysis of all transcripts (expressed genes changes based on

external stimuli – stress- diet – aging = Functional genomics!)

• Proteomics: P

P is h

i Proteome i the set of all expressed proteins for a given organism.

f ll d i f i i

• Metabolomics: analysis of all metabolites produced by organism–can be used

as biological markers

• biology omics

Systems biology, involves the integration of all the “omics” information to

create a whole system view of an entity. By understanding the complete “parts

lists” in a genome, we gain a better understanding of complex biological

systems and how they interact to make a functioning organism.

Nutrigenomics Nutritional Genomics

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient

food "

with food." (Hippocrates)

• Nutrigenomics Analysis of nutrient regulation of gene expression

• Nutritional Genomics/ Nutrigenetics: Individual response to

nutrients/anti-nutrients.

different nutrients/anti nutrients May change how we prevent and

treat disease and how food is grown and processed?

Nutrigenomics Nutritional Genomics

disease associated

• Monogenic Diseases: 97% “disease-associated” genes

• Phenylketonuria, phenylalanine hydroxylase PHE -> TYR.

Leads to neurological damage and mental retardation.

TYR-supplemented no

PHE restricted TYR supplemented diets -no Aspartame!

• Lactose Intolerance – Juvenile enzyme active in adults

• Fauvism G6PD Deficiency red blood cell enzyme Med

• SNP in haemochromatosis linked gene (HFE) risk for

haemochromatosis,

• A222V MTHFR PM higher intakes of folic acid to lower

serum homocysteine

• Polygenic diseases obesity cancer diabetes and

obesity, cancer, diabetes,

cardiovascular diseases

• Dietary intervention complex and ambitious goal

• Most dietary effect specific interactions on molecular

level, regulation of gene expression directly or

transcription factors

Nancy Fogg-Johnson: “Nutrigenomics” ( correct term should be

Nutrigenetics) will revolutionize health and nutrition – It will inform how

grown, processed,

we prevent and treat disease and how food is grown processed and made made.

Eventually nutrigenomics will be able to discover diets that prevent or

retard the onset of the most serious and widespread of today's killer

diseases, cancer, Alzheimer s.

diseases like cancer as well as degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's

When/if?

• Sitosterolemia (hyperabsorption of sterols hypercholesterolemia risk for

atherosclerosis). Regulation of sterol uptake

• Mice was treated with a lipid metabolism-altering drug

p g g

• DNA microarray used for expression profiling of various tissues.

• Differential display with a control led to the discovery of an unknown gene.

• Computer simulation found that two proteins gene regulated reverse

cells.

transport of dietary sterols out of the apical surface of intestinal cells

• Exploring human gene databases, found a human homologue

• This explained why dietary sterols, which are structurally similar to

cholesterol, are not absorbed in normal individuals.

• By scanning sitosterolemic individuals for this gene, it was found that all of

them had a mutation in this gene responsible for their uncontrolled

hyperabsorption of dietary sterols.

Nutrigenomics Nutritional Genomics

• Nutrigenetics analysis of genetic variations among individuals

with respect to the interaction between diet and disease.

• Individual genetic makeup affects the response to diet and the

susceptibility to diet-related diseases.

• Gene variants associated with differential responses to

nutrients and higher susceptibility to diet-related diseases.

• GOAL: to provide nutritional recommendations for individuals

in what is known as personalized or individualized nutrition.

diet-

• Genetic variations shown to increase the susceptibility to diet

related diseases. Type 2 diabetes mellitus, obesity,

cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancers.

g y p g

• Nutrigenetics aims to study these susceptible genes and

provide dietary interventions for individuals at risk.

• Dutch Famine babies

• Lipomics: lipid profiling

determine fitness susceptibility

Nutrigenomics Nutritional Genomics

sensitivity

• Number of genes regulate lipid metabolism/insulin sensitivity,

thus affect susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus.

• SREBP-1c (sterol response element binding protein) mutations

livers, resistance, T2DM.

led to fatty livers severe insulin resistance T2DM For one

polymorph mRNA highly induced in mice on high fructose

diets. Another PM indicated DM onset in men, but not women

• T2DM: Asian/Hispanic populations insulin resistance rather

than β-cell dysfunction. In African-Americans the opposite.

• Hyperlipidemia: E4 allele in the apolipoprotein E higher LDL

(E1 E2

compared with the other (E1, E2, E3) for same fat intake levels

• ApoA1 women showed increase in HDL with increase in PUFA

compared to G variant taking similar amounts of PUFA.

Haplotype (H K) i l k t i

•H l t hydrolase (LTA4H) risk of

(HapK) in leukotriene A4 h d l i k f

myocardial infarction (MI) European and African Americans. MI

significantly greater in African-Americans HapK. (n6/n3)

Barbecue H t

•B b li ti i t l t dt ti

Heterocyclic aromatic amines acetylated to reactive

metabolites bind DNA - colon cancers. Only NAT2 fast

acetylator PM genotype has higher risk for colon cancer

Caveat Emptor!

C tE t !

Will there be implications for

your insurance if you have a

susceptibility to heart disease?

Will there be implications if you

fail to follow a diet to retard the

onset of symptoms?



• "Nutrigenetic Testing: Tests Purchased from Web Sites Mislead Consumers.“

• Government Accountability Office (GAO) commercial "nutrigenetic" testing

dubious clinical validity of commercial genetic tests, and unethical practices

• Investigators posed as 14 clients used the DNA from just 2 - man (48)-girl

(9mnth). Despite this, the test 'results' were contradictory and warned of risks

p , ,

for various conditions. osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes and more. Affiliated

companies then offer nutritional supplements to stave off these predicted

sicknesses — but the pills turn out to be little more than multivitamins, offered

with a hefty dose of misleading medical advice. Cost to you a mere $89 to $395!

(Nature, 2006)

Improved Nutritional Content

Many common food crops not perfect for nutritional

requirements of humans or animals.

Proteins

Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM), 1 in 4 children worldwide

70% Asia, 26% Africa, 4% Latin America

• Ratio Lysine/ Methionine: Feed Rations/pollution

• High Lysine maize: C. glutanicum DHDPS (5K/1.5K ppm)

g y g ( pp )

• SRP Nonallergenic Amaranthus Albumin for potato

• High Protein: Cytokinin rescue flower pair kernels fused

single kernel two embryos - high protein/oil low CHO

• Artificial Proteins:

• ASP-1-sweet potato 67% increase protein (EAA 80%)

• MB1 – soybeans

Carbohydrates

• Starch High Amylose (resistant starch) inhibit 2 SBE

• Wheat puroindoline genes in rice better starch/flour

• Low-Stachyose galatose, raffinose: Higher energy-lower

indigestible carbohydrate – sweeter:

Improved Nutritional Content



Fiber – Humans increase



• Polymers, Inulins, Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS)

• SC Fructans sucrose taste: GI Tract health- fermented

colonic – bifidobacteria (compete pathogenic bacteria)

SC Fatty acid – anticancer/ inhibit HMG-CoAR less LDL

• SC fructans 1-SST Jerusalem artichoke. 90% sucrose

converted "fructan beets“ (Koops, 2000)

• Potato synthesize the full spectrum of inulins from

l b ti h k t

globe artichoke roots

• Lignans: enterodiol/lactone estrogen-dependent cancer



Fib – A i l Decrease

Fiber Animals D

• Brown midrib (COMT)–Decreased lignin increase

digestibility better feed conversion, livestock prefer

(Sorghum)

Improved Nutritional Content

Oils and Fatty acids

• Altering chain length and saturation level











• Novel genes to produce unusual fatty acids in oilseed

MUFA: Hi h Ol i A id (L Li l i ) t bl th

• MUFA High Oleic Acid (Low-Linolenic) : more stable than

PUFA heat/ oxidation resistant, little or no postrefining

(hydrogenation): AS oleate desaturase soybean gave

80% oleic acid (23%), ess SF / eat of animals

>80% o e c ac d ( 3%), Less S milk/meat o a as

• Stearate Canola, Shortenings, Cocoa Butter Replacer

• MCT: medical foods, ergogenic aids. Acyl-ACPT canola,

increase in capric (C10) and caprylic (C8)

i i i d li

• High-CLA: Antioxidative effects,-- free radicals heart

disease/cancer

• Omega -3 DHA-EPA “Fish Oil” CV/thrombosis/ Cancer/

Arthritis/ Cognitive/Mental/ premies - Δ6 Desaturase:

Canola precursor SDA 3.6>>ALA in generating EPA

Ω− 6 GLA- 4X Safflower: Neurodegenerative/inflammation



HO • Sitostanol: phytosterol phospholipid Block cholesterol

Sitostanol Cholesterol

Improved Nutritional Content

Micro Vitamins:

Golden rice II β-carotene-Rice (

• AG / )

(70g provide 2/3 RDA)

• Folate increase in rice (pregnancy deficinicies)

• E α−tocopherol γ-TMT; Vit C increase corn DHAR

Minerals Ferritin (bean S protein), Metallothionein (Rice, wheat)

Functional components - effects greater than nutrient value alone



Phytochemicals:

• Carotenoids: Golden Rice, Sweet Potato - (sight, development)

• Lycopene: polyamine Tomato – (reduce LDL prostate cancer)

• Flavanols: Catechins, Flavones: quercetin (less DNA adjuncts)

• Phenolics: resveratrol antioxidant (Sirtuin protection anti-aging)



Anti-nutrients: Trypsin Inhibitors; oxalic acid; furans; Phytate,

Anti nutrients

Bioavailability Phosphate, divalent ions: Phytase (Rice, alfalfa)



Allergens: soy P34 removal; peanut; gluten digestion

Toxins: Glycoalkaloid (potato) AS solanine

• Cyanogenic glucoside (cassava) hydroxynitril lyase

Genomics: Marker assisted selection, generation interval reduction etc.

Transgenics

Agriculture Applications: More efficient production of animal-derived

foods.

- disease resistance

p

- improved p y p growth rate, metabolism,

productivity: improved g

milk/meat quality and composition

Medical Applications

- Produce valuable proteins in milk, blood or urine

- Xenotransplantation

- Disease and developmental models

Clones: Efficiently and truly reproduce the above elites (some hopeful for

Lazarus effect)

Of course the public would never accept genetic engineering of animals!









Large heavily muscled birds with

reduced libido – AI to the rescue

Better Quality “Livestock” Transgenic Coho

Salmon Sockeye GH

grows 6X times

faster converts feed

20% more effectively

reaches maturity ½

time WT



GloFish









EnviroPig Vegetarian milk

Phytase i saliva

Ph t in li (Improved FA)

(I d









HemaTech "knocked out" the prion gene in 12

Lysozyme Goats cloned calves. No disease when brain tissue from

(Also Improved FA) two of the animals exposed to mutant prions

BioSteel (spider silk)

80X tensile strength

of steel in milk of

transgenic BELE

goats. Strength and

flexibility for medical

devices or body y

Willow armor.



Sweetheart (2006) GTC

Helen Sang Roslin (The chick

anti

Biotherapeutics. ATryn, anti-

clotting first drug approved

L d !)

Lady!)

by the European Medicines • 500 flock lentivirus targeted to

Agency (EMEA). Pharming egg white:

G ti i fl

Group anti-inflammatory

t beta-1a

• human interferon beta 1a for

drug in Transgenic rabbits. multiple sclerosis.

• miR24 AntiBody treating

malignant melanoma

Marathon Mouse

Ron Evans et al. genetically engineered an PPAR-delta-

more muscle, less fat and more physical endurance

than littermates (slow twitchers / IIX Fibres).

Mice ran 1,800 meters stayed on the treadmill an hour

longer than controls, which ran 90 minutes and travel

900 M No weight gain on a high fat, high calorie diet

Bring i th Cl ?

B i in the Clones?

Dolly









CC

Millie, Christa, Alexis, Carrel, Dotcom



• Endangered species banked tissue –

• Duplicate valuable “pharm” animals –

Create homogeneous populations

• C t h l ti

of cells, tissues and even organs

for therapeutic transfer

Promethea • Tool to study genome disease, aging and development

Human Biotechnology- Applications

Diagnostics:

M l l tib di N l i A id P b b d

•Monoclonal antibodies, Nucleic Acid Probes, genome-based



Therapeutics:

Drugs

•Drugs

•Vaccines

- Recombinant vaccines

- Recombinant Antigens:

d d

vectored, non-vectored

- DNA Vaccines

•Stem Cells

Gene

•Gene therapy

Genomics:

•Information source for preventative medicine, therapeutics,

diagnostics, gene therapy



Tissue Engineering



Biomaterials, Nanotechnology



Probiotics

Detection of Functional Elements in the Human Genome

Using Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Models

Nov Seipel’s

Nature Nov. 2004 Adam Seipel s seminal work

applied new computational methods for the

detection of functional elements in the human

g ,

genome, reducing p g genes from an

g protein-coding g

initially estimated 35,000 to only 20,000 to

Adam Siepel

UCSC

25,000.

Humans share a

15% homology with baker’s yeast,

20% homology with Arabidopsis

38% homology with the worm C. elegans

47% h l ith th f it fl

homology with the fruit fly,

63% homology with the mouse,

Functionally interchangeable with their counterpart, model

pathways

organisms genetics for human genes suspected to lie in important pathways.

Piebald Syndrome:

mouse and humans have

hit t h

same white patch on

stomach and forehead

resulting from mutation

in the same (c-kit) gene

Immune system fighting for you……









Minerva

Boor

Herceptin

patient









Herceptin; (Trastuzumab) : Mab treatment for HER2 protein overexpressing

metastatic breast cancer.

Rituxan® (Rituximab): A Mab for the treatment of relapsed or refractory

CD20-+ B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, cancer of the immune system.

Avastin (Bevacizumab): Humanized Mab VEGF prevents interaction receptors

on the surface of endothelial cells preventing colon cancer angiogenesis.

…and against you

Stem Cells









•. Geron: Phase I clinical trial, for

acute spinal cord injury. Achieved

functional recovery of treated animals

From nanobots to nanorobes









• January 2005: Carlo Montemagno at the

California

University of California, Los Angeles used rat

muscle tissue to power tiny silicon robots, just half

the width of a human hair, a development that

could lead to stimulators that help paralyzed

people breathe and "musclebots" that maintain

spacecraft by plugging holes from

micrometeorites. It was the first demonstration of

muscle tissue being used to propel a

microelectromechanical system.

Leechian logic





• Ditto at GIT has hooked a number of leech neurons up to microprobes.



• neurons.

Did arithmetic with two large leech neurons The researchers joined the

neurons and linked them to PC, sent number signals to each cell. Using

chaos theory, Ditto stimulated the two neurons. From the chatterbox

traffic that followed, the PC extracted the correct answer to an addition

problem.

problem



• This is the first time invertebrate brain cells have used chaos to do

,

arithmetic, let alone communicate the results to humans. Computerp

simulations by Ditto and Sudeshna Sinha in Madras, India, show that

larger clusters of neurons should also be able to do multiplication and

Boolean logic operations, the underlying principle of digital computers.



• Ditto hopes to use his work in developing robotic brains, where the size

of silicon devices will be prohibitive for many years to come.

Bio-computing. Biological Routes to Hybrid Electronic and Magnetic

Nanostructured Materials. Angela Belcher MIT reports in the Jan 9, 2004

issue of Science that she used genetically engineered viruses that are

noninfectious to humans to mass produce tiny materials for next-generation

optical, electronic and magnetic devices. LCDs. computers, Biosensors,

diagnostics, detection, drug delivery



August Estabrook UCSB nano-material assemblies through bio-scaffolding.

Bio-scaffolding DNA, proteins, or a combination of site-specific binding

proteins and DNA duplex structures for the assembly of nano-scale materials.

Able

Potential for these materials as memory devices –Able to generate optical

write-read/ thermal erase memory images by taking advantage of changes in

the nature of energy transfer following thermal fluctuations in the polymer August

assemblies. Estabrook

Cynthia Kenyon,

Wins King Faisal Prize



Elizabeth Blackburn, UCSF



• Cynthia Kenyon, work with C. elegans has demonstrated that

aging is controlled hormonally through the insulin receptor

system

system.

• daf-2 gene Worms live twice as long with good quality of life

• These worms clearly show the rate of aging is not fixed can be

l d A h daf-16, ff i b i hi h

slowed. Another gene, d f 16 affects aging by switching other

genes on or off. Some encode proteins that prevent or repair

damage molecules in the cell.

• Elizabeth Blackburn, UCSF revealed the critical role of

telomeres — segments of DNA that bind both ends of

chromosomes — and could one day explain the secrets of

d i

cancer and aging.



• It may be possible to reset the clock in humans.

Greatest Challenges going forward

Technical

Intellectual Property: PIPRA – Freedom to Operate (FTO)

Liability

Biosafety: LDCs

Acceptance: - countering fear and misinformation

- moral imperative real need v. hypothetical risk


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