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Biotech conjures images of cloning, lab meat and mind control. But biotechnology has been fuelling humankind’s progress for thousands of years. Today we look past the fear and celebrate the promise. It’s time to Mattsplain. It’s time to Mattsplain.⠀ Excerpt: Biotech is one of those words that’s often thrown around – like blockchain – but that mean very little to most people. •That analogy with blockchain is a really good one. •People often imagine that topics like biotech and block chain are easily definable, like say artificial intelligence or the Internet. •Biotechnology especially is extremely broad. •That’s one of the reasons that we don’t talk about it here too often. •It tends to pop up more often on our geeks squawk show, because there will be a news item about a specific piece of biotech but that technology may not be big enough for us to consider on this show. Presumably that means that there is some enormous breakthrough in the Biotech sphere did you want to talk about today? •That would be the w