Animals as chemical factories
Horses bled for antivenom, crabs drained for endotoxin tests, and silkworms boiled for silk. Science can now replace these practices with synthetic alternatives — but we need to find ways to scale them.
Xander Balwit
Xander Balwit is the editor-in-chief at Asimov Press, a magazine that focuses on scientific progress in biology.
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