“WE'RE AT THE BEGINNING OF BEING ABLE TO DESIGN LIFE IN THE WAY THAT WE WANT”
January 12, 2013 - Science News
Quietly, on the top floor of a nondescript commercial building overlooking Boston Harbor, the future is being born...
Ginkgo is, in essence, a 21st century factory of life. The researchers working there specialize in synthetic biology, a field that seeks to build living things from the ground up. After envisioning what they want new organisms to do, Ginkgo biologists actually grow vials full of redesigned cells. “We’re going from the place we used to be, in doing science and studying the natural world, to a place where we’re now going to be able to engineer and manipulate it,”
“This is not just — oh, we’re going to go build something that’s able to make pieces of DNA better
“We’re at the beginning of being able to design life in the way that we want,” says Pamela Silver, a biologist at Harvard Medical School and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering"
Synthetic biology was born a little more than a decade ago, an offshoot of traditional genetic engineering but distinct in its ambitions, precision and mind-set. Instead of randomly tweaking the genetic blueprints of living organisms... http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/347263/description/Factory_of_Life
THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY URGES PRECAUTION IN EMERGING FIELD OF SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, CLIMATE GEOENGINEERING http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3064836843/increased-precaution-is-needed-in-emerging-fields-such-as-synthetic-biology-climate-geoengineering
OBAMA TO DE-REGULATE GMO / GENETIC BIOTECH INDUSTRY : Fast-tracking approvals, waiving regulations and liability http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3834276755/obama-to-de-regulate-gmo-genetic-biotech-industry-fast-tracking-approvals-waiving-regulations-and-liability
UNDER SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, LIFE WILL NOT BE A PRODUCT OF NATURE BUT OF A LAB AND IT WILL BE PATENTED AND PRIVATIZED http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/2995205047/under-synthetic-biology-life-will-not-be-a-product-of-nature-but-of-a-lab-and-it-will-be-patented-and-privatized
THE GLOBAL CHEMICAL BIOTECH CARTEL - AN UNPRECEDENTED POWER OVER WORLD GOOD SUPPLY http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/1716244040/the-global-chemical-biotech-cartel-an-unprecedented-power-over-world-agriculture-and-human-health
HOW BIOTECH CORPORATIONS AND GMO CROPS ARE THREATENING THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANKIND ALIKE http://www.scoop.it/t/agriculture-gmos-pesticides/p/3583767396/how-biotech-corporations-and-gmo-crops-are-threatening-the-environment-and-humankind-alike
THE ANTHROPOCENE - ATMOSPHERIC GOVERNANCE: WEIGHING THE RISKS OF GEOENGINEERING SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE via The Economist http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/12/anthropocene ALSO SEE: Raining Chemical From The Sky https://thenaturaleye.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2636&action=edit CLIMATE & GEOENGINEERING http://www.etcgroup.org/issues/climate-geoengineering ETC Group http://ow.ly/gqC7V
BIOMASSTERS BATTLE TO CONTROL THE "GREEN" ECONOMY - In this joint report, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the ETC Group reveal the new "Biomassters" and argue that in the absence of effective and socially responsive governance, the green economy will perpetuate the greed economy http://www.etcgroup.org/content/biomassters-battle-control-green-economy
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY - EXTREME GENETIC ENGINEERING: ETC Group http://www.etcgroup.org/issues/synthetic-biology
THE NEW BIOMASSTERS - SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND THE NEXT ASSAULT ON BIODIVERSITY AND LIVELIHOODS: ETC Group www.etcgroup.org/content/new-biomassters
WHO OWNS NATURE? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life - http://www.etcgroup.org/content/who-owns-nature
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