America can’t afford to fall behind China in the race for biotech dominance

Earlier this week, the congressionally-mandated National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology released its major report, titled “Charting the Future of Biotechnology.” The bipartisan and bicameral commission — on which I serve as a commissioner, although the views here are solely my own — asserts in no uncertain terms that “biotechnology represents the next transformative leap for human potential.”

Biotechnology — in less than a decade and when mated with artificial intelligence ...