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50 Smartest Companies 2014

March 2014

These businesses are setting the pace of innovation. They’re shaking up markets or creating new ones.

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50 Smartest Companies

Features

Categorized in Biotechnology
Genome Surgery
Precise and easy ways to rewrite human genes could finally provide the tools that researchers need to understand and cure some of our most deadly genetic diseases.
Categorized in Humans and technology
An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
A new nerve interface gives a sense of touch to a prosthetic limb.

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