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Biotechnology

Genetically Engineered Trees and Glowing Synthetic Plants? No Thanks

Rachel Smolker | Posted 05.24.2013 | Green
Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Synthetic Biology, Biotechnology, Usda, Biofuels, Plant Biotechnology, Trees, Green News
Rachel Smolker

For the techno-obsessed, ideas are spawned, scientists get grants, become "experts" and build careers, patents are filed, business ventures launched, and PR firms hired, all before the fundamental questions are raised: Is this environmentally safe, responsible and fair?

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New Analysis of Wikileaks Shows State Department's Promotion of Monsanto's GMOs Abroad

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 05.20.2013 | Green
Read More: Biotechnology, Gmos, Wikileaks, Food-Water-Watch, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

It's outrageous that tax dollars would be used to lobby on behalf of a handful of private corporations, which clearly do not lack the resources to do so on their own.

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Best Public Relations Money Can Buy -- A Guide to Food Industry Front Groups

Michele Simon | Posted 05.16.2013 | Business
Read More: Kraft Foods, Coca-Cola, Politics, Biotechnology, Front Groups, Lobbying, Food Politics, Public Relations, Food, Business News
Michele Simon

With growing concern over the negative impacts of our highly industrialized and overly processed food system, the food industry has a serious public relations problem on its hands. Instead of cleaning up its act, corporate lobbyists are trying to control the public discourse.

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The Future of Biotechnology: The Hidden Costs of Hesitation

The European Magazine | Posted 04.25.2013 | Science
Read More: John Nestor, Biotechnology, Drug Approval, Fda, John Nestor FDA, Biotechnology Future, Biotechnology Caution, Science News
The European Magazine

We are quick to discuss the negative and unintended consequences of new medical technologies, but could it be that we are killing more people by increasing the cost and time to market of drugs than we are saving through careful, meticulous oversight?

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Eat-In at the FDA

Ben Droz | Posted 04.10.2013 | DC
Read More: Healthy Eating, Usda, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Sustainable Food, Fda, Agriculture, Food, Organic, Food Safety, Biotech, Dc, Aquabounty, Gmo, DC News
Ben Droz

Whatever your thoughts on GMO foods or GMO fish, whether you eat them or avoid them, please take action. f you don't, the FDA will continue to spend American tax dollars asking the wrong questions.

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WATCH: 3D Printer Creates Human-Like Cells

Posted 04.05.2013 | Science
Read More: Chemistry, 3d Printing Tissue, Biotechnology, Video, Daily Discovery, 3D Printing, Biology, Nervous System, Bioengineering, 3d Printed Cell, Fake Tissue, 3d Printer Artificial Tissue, Science News

By: Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/04/2013 02:11 PM EDT on LiveScience A team of chemists has found a way to print 3D materia...

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Getting Back to Work: Funders Partner to Invest in Training that Makes a Difference

The National Fund for Workforce Solutions | Posted 04.29.2013 | Impact
Read More: Careers, Job Training, Opportunity-Working, Employment, Biotechnology, Jobraising, Impact News
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions

2012-11-13-jrlogo300x60.gifFunders and employers working together to advance common goals and support workforce initiatives -- and that are aligned with real industry needs -- can and do lead to meaningful jobs outcomes.

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Should 'Designer Babies' Be Banned?

Posted 02.19.2013 | Science
Read More: Video, Biotechnology, Human Engineering, Prenatal Engineering, Designer Babies, Genetically Engineered Babies, Genetics, Babies, Eugenics, Genetic Engineering, Science News

By: Wynne Parry, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/18/2013 11:55 AM EST on LiveScience NEW YORK — The increasing power and accessibility of ...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Hacking Obama's DNA?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 11.15.2012 | Science
Read More: HuffPost Live, Jacob Soboroff, Synthetic Biology, Video, Biotechnology, Talk Nerdy to Me, Bioterrorism, The Atlantic, Science, Genetics, Cara Santa Maria, Biological Weapons, Science News

I was recently asked to join HuffPost Live Producer/Host Jacob Soboroff for a conversation prompted by an article published in The Atlantic called "Ha...

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New Archaeological Dig Planned For Ancient City

Posted 10.18.2012 | Science
Read More: Biotechnology, Video, Troy Archaeology, Bronze Age, Troy, Trojan Horse, Science, Science News, Ancient City, Archeology, Troy Dig, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Science News

By: Live Science Staff Published: 10/18/2012 10:19 AM EDT on LiveScience Armed with shovels, trowels and new biotechnology tools, archaeologists...

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Lynne Peeples

Superweeds, Superbugs And Chemical Concerns: Pesticide Use Proliferating With GMOs, Study Warns

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 10.18.2012 | Green
Read More: Biotech Agriculture, Pesticides, Gmos, Roundup, Pesticides Gmo, Insecticides, Proposition 37, Big Ag, Herbicides, Biotech, Monsanto, Biotechnology, Gmo Crops, Genetically Modified Food, Roundup Herbicide, Gmo, Video, Green News

Scott McAllister remembers well the meeting with the Monsanto salesman. The third-generation Iowa farmer questioned the agricultural giant's peddl...

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Will Congress Let Monsanto Write Its Own Rules?

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 09.11.2012 | Politics
Read More: Politics, Congress, US House of Representatives, Biotechnology, 2012 Farm Bill, Agriculture, Food, Monsanto, Politics News
Andrew Kimbrell

Rather than address the industry's continued failures, the chemical industry's allies in Congress are trying to change the law via the Farm Bill. The logic being: if you can't win the game, change the rules.

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Blood-Mimicking Breakthrough May Save Lives On Battlefield

Posted 05.31.2012 | Science
Read More: Synthetic Platelets, Biotechnology, Video, Bioengineering, Blood, Chemical Engineering, Biochemistry, Platelets, Blood Clotting, Medicine, Science News

By: InnovationNewsDaily Staff Published: 05/30/2012 05:59 PM EDT on InnovationNewsDaily Wounded soldiers or surgery patients could soon get new...

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Most People Fine With Food Biotechnology, Survey Says

Food Safety News | Posted 05.11.2012 | Home
Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Food Technology, Biotechnology, Genetics, Home News

While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of ...

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Big Pharma Company Battles To Buy Gene Science Firm

Reuters | Ben Hirschler | Posted 06.25.2012 | Science
Read More: Glaxosmithkline, Big Pharma, Dna, Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology, Video, Genes, Genome, Reuters, Human Genome Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Craig Venter, Human Genome, Gsk, Science News

By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its $2.6 billion bid for long-time partner Human Genome...

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Iconic American Tree Poised For Comeback, Gene Scientists Say

Posted 04.16.2012 | Science
Read More: Chestnut Tree Gene, William Powell, Science, Suny, Chestnut Tree Fungus, Trees, Video, Plants, Biotechnology, Chestnut Tree, Genes, Plant Biotechnology, Forestry, American Chestnut Tree, Chestnut Trees, Botany, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Science News

By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff Published: 04/16/2012 09:23 AM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet Once plentiful, the American chestnut tree has largely disappear...

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High Price of Monopoly: Why American Farmers Must Buy From Just One Seed Company

John W. Boyd Jr. | Posted 04.22.2012 | Green
Read More: Seeds, Iowa, Farming, Black Farmers, National Black Farmers Association, Seed Companies, Monsanto, Farmers, Monsanto Farmers, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Monopoly, Antitrust, Biotech, Monsanto Seeds, Bv-Politics, Green News
John W. Boyd Jr.

Monsanto's monopoly limits farmers' choices and threatens our livelihoods. But America's antitrust laws were enacted to protect us from this very situation. These laws are premised on the belief that competitive markets produce the best products, and they need to be enforced.

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Dow and Monsanto's Plan to Increase the Toxic Pesticides Sprayed in America's Heartland

Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012 | Green
Read More: Farming, Pesticides, Biotechnology, Monsanto, Corn, Dow Chemical, Beef, Roundup Herbicide, Sustainable Farming, Agent Orange, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Green News
Richard Schiffman

These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.

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For Santorum, It's Values Versus Innovation

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 03.05.2012 | Politics
Read More: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Economy, Rick Santorum, Rick Santorum 2012, Innovation, Industry Growth, Job Creation, Gop Party 2012, Election 2012, Rick Santorum Values, Conservative Values, Politics News
Jonathan D. Moreno

A few days ago it was hard to find a pundit who didn't think that the 2012 campaign was going to be all about jobs.They thought that value issues were off the table. Wrong again.

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It's the Century of Biology: Are the Candidates Listening?

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 02.05.2012 | Politics
Read More: Biotechnology, Competitiveness, Pharma, Politics News
Jonathan D. Moreno

So far in this election cycle, the only vaguely relevant recognition of the importance of leadership in biotechnology for the country's future was a polemical and uninformative exchange on vaccination policy.

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Beyond Vaccine Politics to Biopolitics

Jonathan D. Moreno | Posted 11.14.2011 | Politics
Read More: Embryos, Biotechnology, Biopolitics, Climate Change, Science, Evolution, Religion and Science Debate, Vaccines, Politics News
Jonathan D. Moreno

Even in an election cycle that is dominated by the economy, feelings about cultural issues continue to be the most raw, especially where the power of modern medical science seems to conflict with tradition values. Welcome to the era of biopolitics.

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Watch: Researchers Create 'Bulletproof Skin'

Posted 10.18.2011 | Technology
Read More: Technology News, Scientific Research, Science, Biotechnology, Bulletproof Skin, Video, Spider Silk, Technology, Technology News

Bullets famously bounced off of Superman, but ordinary people may be able to achieve similar feats, if one researcher in Holland has her way. A pr...

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Artist Seeks Funding To Put A Camera In Her Eye (VIDEO)

Posted 09.13.2011 | Arts
Read More: Photography, Bionic, Six Million Dollar Man, Transhumanism, Kickstarter, Tanya Vlach, Film, UK Arts, Biotechnology, Camera, Documentary, Technology, San Francisco, Science Fiction, We Live in Public, Arts News

When they rebuilt the Six Million Dollar Man, the doctors of the 1970s TV series made him "Better...stronger...faster." Now, if San Francisco artist T...

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Lucia Graves

Monsanto Under Federal Investigation For Cash Incentives Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 08.30.2011 | Green
Read More: Federal Investigation, Roundup Ready, Biotechnology, Herbicide, Roundup, Security and Exchange Commission, Genetically Modified, Agriculture, Monsato Profits, Sec, Monsanto, Glyphosate, Green News

WASHINGTON -- Global agribusiness giant Monsanto is under federal investigation for using cash incentives to persuade distributors to use Roundup, the...

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Stonyfield CEO: Our Coalition Didn't Cave To Monsanto On GE Alfalfa

Gary Hirshberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Organic Consumers ASsociation, Biotechnology, Organic Food, GM Crops, Usda Alfalfa, Stonyfield, Organic Valley, Biotech, GM Food, Whole Foods, Usda Monsanto, Monsanto, Ronnie Cummins, Home News
Gary Hirshberg

Baseless attacks within the organic community do not serve the organic cause. Instead of fighting with each other, we need to fight Monsanto and the forces that are ignoring Americans who support organic and want the right to choose.

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