Category: Updates
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Bay Area Biotech Labs May Bring Unforeseen Risks, Says Civil Society Coalition
Community Groups Raise Concerns Over Untold Story of ‘Green’ Development March 28, 2012 — Synbiowatch, a newly formed coalition of labor, environmental, and bioscience watchdog groups, has come together to host a public forum on March 29 called Unmasking the Bay Area Bio Lab and Synthetic Biology: Health, Justice, and Communities at Risk, at the David […]
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Video: Biolab Health & Safety, from Council for Responsible Genetics
Current regulatory framework governing laboratory safety largely excludes new biological materials, genetically engineered viruses, nanomaterials and other biological materials.
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Op-ed: Bay Area may be at risk from synthetic biology research labs
From the San Jose Mercury-News By Emily Smith Beitiks Special to the Mercury News Posted: 03/27/2012 01:01:26 PM PDT Updated: 03/27/2012 02:39:14 PM PDT Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory recently announced a proposal to build a facility in Richmond at which synthetic biology research will be a major focus. This news should give us […]
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Bay Area Biotech Boom: A Public Disaster in the Private Interest?
A Climate Connections Special Report In advance of the upcoming public forum, Unmasking the Bay Area Bio-Labs and Synthetic Biology: Health, Justice, and Communities at Risk, to be held on March 29 in Berkeley, Climate Connections and Global Justice Ecology Project bring you this extended, in-depth look at the industry-government ties, the risks to community health and ecology, […]
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Synthetic Biology in four minutes and change: Eric Hoffman of Friends of the Earth on Youtube
“Glow in the dark animals! We’re making pigs and rats and cats glow these days…But that’s the realm of normal, everyday, old-school genetic engineering. Now my friends, we’re headed into a new frontier, a more complicated frontier, possibly, a more dangerous frontier.” In this four-minute segment of the Sci Show, the host explains synthetic biology […]
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Amyris adds a royal to its board of directors
This just in, from Richard Brenneman’s Eats Shoots ‘n Leaves, posted on 2012 March 22: Yep, the troubled UC Berkeley-spawned genetic engineering products company bankrolled by Bill Gates has added a princeling and former Prime Minister of Qatar toits board. A brief bio of the newest member of the Emeryville company’s board from Wikipedia: Sheikh Abdullah […]
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KPFK Earth Segment: Marty Cobenais of IEN on Obama’s Keystone Pipeline reversal and ETC Group’s Jim Thomas on the threat of synthetic biology
Global Justice Ecology Project partners with Margaret Prescod and the Sojourner Truth show at KPFK Pacifica in Los Angeles for weekly Earth Segments and weekly Earth Minutes. This week’s Earth Segment features Marty Cobenais of Indigenous Environmental Network giving IEN’s perspective on Obama’s Keystone pipeline reversal, and Jim Thomas of ETC Group on the threat to communities of synthetic […]
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The consequences of Steve Chu’s curious decisions
One of our favorite bloggers, Berkeley journalist Richard Brenneman, has a bone to pick with Secretary of Energy (and former Berkeley resident and head of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) Steve Chu. On his blog Eats Shoots ‘n Leaves, Brenneman had this missive to share today. – Synbiowatch 2012 March 20 – Having its Nobel laureate head of Lawrence […]
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A New Human Genome Project: A No Brainer?
The Huffington Post published an article today by Andrew Hessel calling for “Another Human Genome Project” to promote “countless new biotech applications.” “To me,” Hessel writes, “it seems a no-brainer when it comes to big ideas in the genetic space.” In our ongoing coverage leading up to the March 29 conference Unmasking The Bay Area Bio-lab and Synthetic […]
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Representative Bilbray Learns About JBEI, ABPDU, and Life Sciences During Recent Visit
From News from Berkeley Lab, March 14, 2012 Representative Brian Bilbray (R-San Diego County) was welcomed to the Joint BioEnergy Institute on Friday by Lab Deputy Director Horst Simon (far right), JBEI CEO and Associate Laboratory Director Jay Keasling (center left) and Don Medley (far left), Head of Federal Government Relations. Rep. Bilbray serves on the […]