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Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health

2020-01-14 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·44m 55s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Food, Drugs, and Tech—100 Years of Public Health
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The federal agency known as the FDA, or the Food and Drug Administration, was born over 100 years ago—at the turn of the industrial revolution, in a time of enormous upheaval and change, and rapidly emerging technology. The same could be said to be just as true today. From CRISPR to synthetic biolog