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| Caruso and Darnovsky on Synthetic Biologyby Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical TimesNovember 17th, 2008If you are doing some crash preparation to attend tonight's debate on synthetic biology with Drew Endy and Jim Thomas, here are two resources to bring you up to speed. |
| Synthetic BiologyVenter's Trillion-Dollar Dream Spotlights Dangers of "Self-Regulation"Genetic CrossroadsJune 29th, 2007Yesterday's announcement that biotech entrepreneur Craig Venter is one step closer to constructing a self-replicating artificial life form should be a wake-up call. Venter's move to construct a synthetic bacterial species paves the way for the deliberate or accidental creation of pathogens of unprecedented virulence. |
| Calls for a Moratorium on Food from Cloned AnimalsGenetic CrossroadsOctober 20th, 2006A coalition of health, environmental, animal safety, consumer and religious groups has filed a petition with the Food and Drug Administration aimed at the agency's pending decision on allowing meat and milk from cloned animals into the U.S. food supply. |
| FoE Condemns Athletic "Gene Doping"Genetic CrossroadsMarch 31st, 2005Friends of the Earth President Dr. Brent Blackwelder testified before the US House Government Reform Committee hearings on steroid use in baseball to urge they consider action to ban athletic "gene doping." |
| Humans 2.0Will Your Grandchildren Be Genetically Modified?September 28th, 2004A conversation with Michael Pollan, Bill McKibben, and Marcy Darnovsky about the social and political implications of the new human biotechnologies, later broadcast on KPFA Sunday Salon. |
| Posthuman Enough?by Richard B. Norgaard, BioScienceMarch 30th, 2004Will we say "enough" and set up the controls necessary to prevent the transformation of a portion of the human population into superpeople? |
| Too Clever Too Fast Too Happyby Bill McKibben, The GuardianMay 3rd, 2003But what if, instead of crudely cheating with hypodermics, we began literally to programme children before they were born to become great athletes?... And as we move into the new world of genetic engineering, we won't simply lose races, we'll lose racing : we'll lose the possibility of the test, the challenge, the celebration that athletics represents. |
| Bill McKibben in ConversationApril 30th, 2003The Center for Genetics and Society presented an evening with Bill McKibben, renowned author of the new book Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, along with Anuradha Mittal, Marc Lappe, and Marcy Darnovsky. |
| Designer Genesby Bill McKibben, OrionApril 30th, 2003Once you accept the idea that our bodies are essentially plastic, and that it's okay to manipulate that plastic, there's no reason to think that consumers would balk because "genes" were involved instead of, say, "toxins." Especially since genetic engineering would not promote your own vanity, but instead be sold as a boon to your child. The vision of genetic engineers is to do to humans what we have already done to salmon and wheat, pine trees and tomatoes. |
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