GEN Magazine
To read GEN’s 40th anniversary issue is to reflect upon the past and look at the potential future of the biotech industry. Something akin to gazing upon a starry sky. GEN was honored to have 73 scientific or business luminaries—sometimes both and a few already legends!—share their commentaries on biotech’s triumphs and opportunities. Each luminary has a chance to shine both individually and as part of the dynamic life science universe. As our luminaries explain, biology and technology and business came together, coalesced, and released pent-up energies to create the new world we call biotechnology, comprising translational science, drug development, and biomanufacturing, as well as all the “omes” (genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, metabolomes, microbiomes, and others). Let’s all read about what wonders might await in this exciting and promising new world.
![This chip-based "tractor-beam," which uses an intensely focused beam of light to capture and manipulate biological particles without damaging the cells, could help biologists study the mechanisms of diseases. [Sampson Wilcox, RLE]](https://www.genengnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Low-Res_MIT_Tractor-Beam-01-PRESS-218x150.jpg "New Integrated Optical Tweezer Enables Trapping of Beads and Cells")
![Vacaville site. [Lonza]](https://www.genengnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Vacaville-Site-Edt-218x150.jpg "Lonza Completes Acquisition of Vacaville, CA Site from Roche")
![A cortical neuron labeled with monosynaptic rabies virus (orange). [Salk Institute]](https://www.genengnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Low-Res_Salk-Callaway-Rabies-Neuron-e1727721212390-218x150.jpg "New Brain-Mapping Tool, START, Resolves Connectivity at the Resolution of Transcriptomic Cell Types")
