Jul. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Activist opposition to the proposed plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys is starting to heat up -- and the media is increasingly taking notice. Last month, I sent an email encouraging Friends of the Earth activist...
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May. 16, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman, Stuart Newman, Ph.D. / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Synthetic biology is the newest purported cure-all technology for remedying our social, environmental, and public health ills. As many prominent synthetic biologists proclaimed in 2007, the world “face[s] daunting problems of climate change,...
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May. 11, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Last weekend the Keynoter newspaper in the Florida Keys reported that plans to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key West “remain on indefinite hold.” But Oxitec has submitted an application to the FDA for approval of its mo...
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Apr. 27, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Yesterday morning the White House released its National Bioeconomy Blueprint which “outlines steps that agencies will take to drive the bioeconomy—economic activity powered by research and innovation in the biosciences—and detail...
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