University of Northern Iowa
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
Biotechnology’s advance could give malefactors the ability to manipulate life processes — and even affect human behavior.
Technology Review: The Knowledge
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Posted in Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th, 2009
We are pleased to announce a special opportunity to help build the community of biologists and engineers that iGEM represents. The Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) is a young, dynamic professional organization that has embraced the emerging field of synthetic biology. We are a young organization in two ways: IBE is just 12 years old, [...]
Posted in Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th, 2009
The Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory established the world’s first Synthetic Biology Department, which seeks to understand and design biological systems and their components to address a host of problems that cannot be solved using naturally-occurring systems. Employing organisms and biologically inspired systems to solve real-world problems has enormous potential for human [...]
Posted in Synthetic Biology on Jan 10th, 2009
“Biology is going to be able to make the things that we want,” said Tom Knight, an MIT engineer and co-founder of iGEM. “And when that happens, the economics of production are going to change dramatically. It doesn’t take a billion-dollar [facility] to make stuff. It takes a hundred-dollar incubator.”
Genetic-Engineering Competitors Create Modular DNA Dev [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
Up on the roof of the zoology building, Fritz Vollrath pushes open the door of a small greenhouse and walks in. Tupperware containers full of maggots and decomposing fruit are scattered on every available surface, and the thick and sickly smell of rot fills Vollrath’s nostrils. But he ignores these signs that all is well: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
Several developing countries now have well-developed biotechnology programmes; they are approaching the leading edge of biotechnology applications and have significant research capacity, according to a new FAO assessment on the status of research and application of crop biotechnologies in developing countries.
Biotechnology: Several developing countries now have well-developed programmes
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Posted in Ethnobotany, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
On the UCLA campus, Professor Arthur C. Gibson has since 1984 taught a course on economic botany, entitled “Plants and Civilization.” More than 8600 undergraduate students have taken that course (as of 1999), which Prof Gibson has taught 29 times, and likely that course is the largest of its kind at any university, often having [...]
Posted in Psychedelics, Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2009
Washington, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state courts found that its medical marijuana law was not preempted by federal law. The state appellate court decision from November 28, 2007, ruled that “it is not the job of the local police to enforce the federal [...]
Posted in Animal Biotechnology on Jan 3rd, 2009
Human-pig hybrid embryos have been given the go-ahead by the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority; this is the first since the Commons voted in favor of this research last month.
Human-Pig Hybrids Approved In UK: Science Fiction in the News
