Month: August 2020

In a prior post, I shared Economist Adam Smith’s point that wealth consists of goods and services ― the food, shelter, clothing, medicines, vehicles, appliances, and technology available to buy. According to this view, a people who produces more or better things grows wealthier. Will there ever come a day, then, when we’ve achieved sufficient wealth and can stabilize production?…

“Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat,” is the old magician’s line, a sleight of hand designed to amaze and entertain us. But what if such tricks were real? What if, for example, you could transform a mouse’s immune system into a human one? That is what they’ve done at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company known for creating…