Check your subscription status, update your details and more. 4 of the most memorable biotech moments in modern scientific history On the eve of New Scientist’s 70th anniversary, newsroom legend Andy Coghlan reveals four of the most dramatic and surprising moments from his storied career Born two years before me, _New Scientist_ has documented unprecedented change since 1956 – the moon landings, nuclear energy, the digital age. It was my privilege to greet such whirlwind change during my time on the newsdesk from 1986 to 2018, a period that had no shortage of big discoveries, especially on the medical and biotechnology beat. I noisily (and literally) banged out my earliest stories on a typewriter, in an age of journalism that depended on telephones, notebooks, shorthand, faxes and a lot of red ink.
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