Bondar on benefits of biotech.
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Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space, delivered her
"Message from MARS," sharing stories of the value, benefits,
and unique contributions biotechnology has made to our everyday lives.
These noteworthy improvements included innovative medical treatments
that ease the burden of disease. Canadian companies are fine-tuning a
way to produce commercial quantities of human insulin from genetically
modified safflower plants, to increase access to treatment by diabetes
patients worldwide. Bondar poses above with safflowers at the same desk
Banting and Best administered the first insulin injection in 1922.
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