LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA – Pundits have long predicted that biology would dominate the twenty-first century, just as physics dominated the twentieth century. But biomedical research has yet to achieve the kind of productivity increases that accompanied the industrialization of combustion, electricity, and electronics.
拉荷亚，加利福尼亚—权威人士早就预测，生物学将主宰二十一世纪，正如物理学主宰二十世纪。但生物医学研究并为实现与伴随燃烧、电力和电子的产业化所出现的那种生产率提升。“生物学的世纪”最后会成为镜花水月吗？