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Your point: "The role of the artist in the biotechnology age is to use their art in a creative manner to further scientific discovery", is a very interesting one because typically the general public views science and art as opposite ends of the spectrum and not always bleeding into and influencing each other. I also like your point that "we are all bound together" whether we agree with the art or technology it is still in hindsight a key to discovery and learning more about the growth and development of humankind. 

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