The Green Files > NEWS ALERT: Open Letter from Social Movements and other Civil Society Organizations to the Synthetic Biology 2.0 Conference Ma

http://thegreenreport.com/nature2.0 [Nature 2.0 Beta] In October last year, synthetic biologists at the US Center for Disease Control re-created the 1918 Spanish flu virus that killed between 50-100 million people (3) and last month scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created a new version of E. coli bacteria (4).

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http://no.oneslistening.com [No.oneslistening.com] Synthetic Biology: Change On The Horizon ”” No One’s Listening Archive: One major goal of the site is to create teaching materials that help the public understand the full implications of synthetic biology research. In an effort to explore new ways of introducing the concepts behind synthetic biology, a recent issue of Nature featured a comic strip focused on synthetic biology.

Scienceblog.comhttp://www.scienceblog.com [Scienceblog.com] Biology Poised to Lose its Innocence? | Science Blog: George Poste of Arizona State University, who weathered several scientific controversies as chief science and technology officer of the pharmaceuticals giant SmithKline Beecham in the 1990s, fears that synthetic biology is poised to fall foul of the fantasy of a zero-risk culture. While the problems this new science might address, such as the spread of diseases ranging from Aids to Sars to malaria, have come to be regarded by society as business as usual, public concern focuses on the extreme, rare disasters that new technologies could precipitate.

Organicconsumers.org[Organicconsumers.org] Beware--Money Hungry Scientists Playing God with Deadly Bacteria: Watchdog group to monitor biotech, irradiated food, mad cow disease, gmo and rBGH. ... important concern with synthetic biology. Ron Weiss, an electrical ...

http://dimer.tamu.edu [Dimer.tamu.edu] blogs for industry: ...blogs for the dead: Summers was really just articulating what most researchers in this area believe -- that biology plays a bigger role in [differences in ability in mathematical and scientific achievement] than socialization does." This is also true when it comes to verbal achievement, except that here women out perform men.It is my impression that researchers in the field believe that there are gender differences in performance on different kinds of tests. I don't think that most researchers believe that innate differences are more important than socialization, unless one counts taking advanced math classes as biological and not part of socialization.

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