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@GeneticLiteracy shared
On Jan 6, 2022
“Synthetic biology is pushing innovation into entirely new territories, from clothing and furniture manufacturing to cruelty-free meat and leather to pollution reduction and the manufacture of jet fuel.” @prometheursgreen @ITIFdc #geneticliteracy https://t.co/mFwDS8wB4R
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Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis

Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis

The season of retrospectives is upon us. The past year will be long remembered with dismay and sadness, as the four horsemen—

@prometheusgreen shared
On Jan 10, 2022
RT @GeneticLiteracy: The debate over labeling these foods has raged for decades, in spite of the longstanding, unequivocal consensus in the scientific community that mandatory labeling fails every test — scientific, economic, legal, and common-sense. @henryimiller ... https://t.co/0yxlWo9aoI
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Viewpoint: ‘The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment’ — The cowardly, useless stupidity behind the new genetic modification law

Viewpoint: ‘The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment’ — The cowardly, useless stupidity behind the new genetic modification law

It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary to the public interest. One of

@GeneticLiteracy shared
On Jan 6, 2022
“Given that climate change is occurring regardless of the cause and that gene editing have enabled scientists to deliver a variety of foods and drugs safely, there is at least one option to prevent numerous species from becoming extinct.” @Quillette https://t.co/hKc3m2CsS7
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What’s the key, mostly missing, innovation that can help us adapt to severe climate change? Agricultural biotechnology

What’s the key, mostly missing, innovation that can help us adapt to severe climate change? Agricultural biotechnology

The major food staples are essential to human survival. Chocolate and coffee are not essential, but try to imagine a world without them. One of the

@gmopundit shared
On Jan 6, 2022
RT @prometheusgreen: Heat-Proofing Plants for Food Security May Bank on Ancient Defenses https://t.co/7h8UL5R56Y via @GENbio
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Heat-Proofing Plants for Food Security May Bank on Ancient Defenses

Heat-Proofing Plants for Food Security May Bank on Ancient Defenses

Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Freising, Germany, have discovered an alternative mode of promoting heat resistance in plants. They found the activity of the plant ...

@JonEntine shared
On Jan 10, 2022
Viewpoint: How Bangladesh can use genetic engineering to improve food security https://t.co/P7wuz8lI9I via @GeneticLiteracy
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Viewpoint: How Bangladesh can use genetic engineering to improve food security

Viewpoint: How Bangladesh can use genetic engineering to improve food security

Bangladesh has declared self-sufficiency in food in 2013 with a population of 150 million and continued to maintain the status up till this date as the

@jrkelly shared
On Jan 5, 2022
RT @thisischristina: Cool job alert!! 🧬https://t.co/cL0pjBou9g
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Director of Government Affairs

Director of Government Affairs

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, ...

@SynBioBeta shared
On Jan 7, 2022
Optimvia and @Ginkgo Bioworks announced a partnership to improve the manufacturing efficiency of biosynthetic heparin, an essential medicine currently produced from industrial animal agriculture: https://t.co/Ogf0yClH0u
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Optimvia and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Manufacture Biosynthetic Heparin

Optimvia and Ginkgo Bioworks Announce Partnership to Manufacture Biosynthetic Heparin

BOSTON and CINCINNATI, Jan. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Optimvia, a biotechnology company specializing in engineering enzymes and their cofactors to synthesize complex therapeutic molecules, ...

@DBTIndia shared
On Jan 10, 2022
RT @PIBDST: Union Minister @DrJitendraSingh chairs a high-level jt. meeting of all Science Ministries & Depts; Calls for Centre-State Science Co-ord to provide Scientific solutions to State Specific problems. @IndiaDST @PIB_India @moesgoi @DBTIndia @PBNS_India Read: https://t.co/2JGCxjD4Fb
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Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh presides over a high - level joint meeting of all the Science Ministries and Science Departments

Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh presides over a high - level joint meeting of all the Science Ministries and Science Departments

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Ch