Biotech Policy

A single CRISPR-edited mushroom can require approval from three different federal agencies.

In 1937, a Tennessee pharmaceutical company released a new liquid formulation of an antibiotic called sulfanilamide.

In December 2023, the FDA approved a drug called CASGEVY.

In 2016, a Pennsylvania State University plant pathologist named Yinong Yang submitted documents to the USDA describing a new mushroom variety.

In 2005, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a paper in Science describing how they had reconstructed the 1918 influenza virus.

In February 1905, the US Supreme Court decided a case called *Jacobson v.

In April 2018, police in California arrested a 72-year-old man named Joseph James DeAngelo.

In 2023, a research group based at Boston University and several other institutions published a paper describing a new SARS-CoV-2 variant they had constructed in the lab — combining the spike protein of Omicron with the genetic backbone of the original Wuhan strain.