As a scientist and humanitarian, Swiss plant biologist Ingo Potrykus is right up there with Jonas Salk, who introduced the first polio vaccine; Maurice Hilleman, who invented dozens of vaccines, including 8 of the 14 that are currently recommended; and Norman Borlaug, the "Father of the Green Revolution," who saved perhaps a billion lives and improved the health of uncountable others. Or, more accurately, he would be if wrong-headed government regulation had not stalled his onee-in-a-lifetime, life-saving innovation.
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