PUBLIC EXPECTATIONS, FEARS REFLECT BIOTECHS DIVERSITY

BIOTECH in the public eye: Although biotechnology's image is improving , the public sometimes has the opinion that biotech can almost perform miracles, such as curing diseases through gene therapy; on the other hand, consumers are often oblivious to the fact that some of today's d rugs are generated by biotechnological methods; and attitudes toward g enetically modified foods fall somewhere in the middle.