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Bodies and Dollars: Crash Course History of Science #41

2019-03-25

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After World War Two, the applications of basic discoveries in biology took off—and became big business. Today, we’ll look at the rise of Big Pharma and GMO foods. We’ll also discuss how life-science technologies fundamentally changed reproduction: it’s time to invent In Vitro Fertilization and clone a sheep!

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Mill Town
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GMOs
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Cloning
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