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Playing God?
Following the event Unmasking the Bay Area Bio-Lab and Synthetic Biology, The San Francisco Bay Guardian has run this story in its annual Green Issue. We’re glad to get the column inches. — Synbiowatch GREEN ISSUE: Synthetic biology is creating jobs and promising innovations, but critics say it’s dangerous and lacks proper safeguards Researchers in […]
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Critics raise safety concerns with biotech labs at Berkeley forum
By Robert Rogers For the Contra Costa Times No one disputes that the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory campus that’s coming to Richmond will generate jobs and tax revenues. But concerns persist about the work that will be done there, especially in synthetic biology, and the risks posed to the surrounding community. That was among the topics […]
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March 29, 2012 Synbio Forum Livestream
Live broadcast by Ustream The University of California, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and the Department of Energy plan to build a high profile, billion-dollar-plus laboratory complex in the East Bay. While public pronouncements tell us the lab will focus on ‘green’ energy research, the truth is more complicated. A primary focus of the new […]
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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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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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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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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 […]
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Environmental groups call for tighter regulation of ‘extreme genetic engineering’
In the Washington Post’s coverage of the new declaration from Friends of the Earth, ETC Group, and ICTA, [previous post] the Executive Vice President of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, calls the declaration “kind of silly.” But, wouldn’t it be even, kind of, sillier, if jet-fuel-producing-algae were to escape into San Francisco Bay? Or if, say, college students […]