Biotechnology could revolutionise human life. Should it be allowed to?
This is the sixth of a series of eight primers on current affairs and issues in the news, and what they mean for Singapore.
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As science pushes the frontiers of what is known about cancer and other diseases – allowing for new medicines to be developed – digital technology too, is pushing boundaries
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SINGAPORE - Facing what was then an incurable cancer in 2022, Alyssa Tapley, then aged 13, became the first person in the world to receive a revolutionary new treatment.
A year earlier, the teenager from Leicestershire in Britain had been diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) – an aggressive form of blood cancer in which T-cells, a type of white blood cell, become malignant.
