ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. Awaits Cancer Drug Data as Wall Street Withholds Judgment

Jonathan Lewis, the CEO of New York-based Ziopharm (NASDAQ: ZIOP), was stunned earlier this year when he ran across a commercial on YouTube produced by his company’s biggest investor, Fidelity. In the video (see below), a young man makes a bold prediction: “Within 50 years we could have more life forms invented in the lab then we’ve ever identified in nature,” he says. He talks about goats whose milk can be spun into silk, and genetically modified salmon that naturally grow bigger than their non-altered cousins. This “synthetic biology,” he declares, “could become the defining technology of the 21st century.”

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