Biohackers Are Kickstarting Some Unregulated Experiments
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Jim Thomas - Huffington Post
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New York Times: A Dream of Trees Aglow at Night
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by Andrew Pollack
Response from 'Glowing Plants' project
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Email sent by Antony Evans
From: Antony Evans
Date: May 7, 2013 1:34:33 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plants’ project.
Dear Jim Thomas and Eric Hoffman,
Thank you for your interest in our project and taking the time to write to us with your concerns. Please allow me to clarify and expand upon a few key points.
Wall Street Journal : Glow-in-The-Dark Plant Makes Activists See Red
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By Anna Leach
Online at http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2013/05/07/glow-in-the-dark-plant-makes-activists-see-red/
An Israeli startup selling genetically-modified glow-in-the-dark plants over the Web has drawn the ire of environmentalists who are demanding it be withdrawn.
Kickstopper letter to 'Glowing Plants' project
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ETC Group and Friends of The Earth request a halt to Synthetic Biology project.
2 May 2013 Dear Antony Evans,
Request to Cancel the Kickstarter Synthetic Biology ʻGlowing Plantsʼ project.
We are writing to express our concern, in the strongest possible terms, about the project you have listed on Kickstarter, which, as currently advertised, will likely result in widespread, random and uncontrolled release of bioengineered seeds and plants produced with synthetic biology techniques. We respectfully request that this project, which poses real world risks to the environment, be abandoned as currently described.
Kickstopper Letter to USDA APHIS
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Letter sent by ETC Group and Friends of the Earth to USDA APHIS
April 30, 2013
USDA/APHIS/LPA
1400 Independence Avenue,
SW Room 1147
South Building
Washington DC 20250
Ms. Bethany Jones:
Kickstopper Letter to Kickstarter
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ETC and Friends of the Earth request Kickstarter Inc to Cancel the 'Glowing Plants' Project
Kickstarter Inc
155 Rivington St.
Second Floor
New York, NY 10002
United States
30th April 2013
Dear Perry Chen, Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler:
Request for Kickstarter to cancel the Synthetic Biology ‘Glowing Plant: Natural Lighting with No Electricity’ project
Using Conservation for Synthetic Biology.
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Using Conservation for Synthetic Biology.
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Frankly it was all a set up. In the delightfully romantic setting of an old Cambridge college in springtime, complete with free drinks and delicious food, the organizers of last weeks 'Future of Nature' Conference smiled on conspiratorially as their contrivances to introduce two awkward strangers played out over 3 days.
The strangers in this case were not so much boy-meets-girl as naturalist-meets-geek and what they purportedly had in common was biology. The Future of Nature had been billed as an encounter between the synthetic biology community (biotech scientists practicing an extreme form of genetic engineering that builds artificial organisms) and the conservation biology community who are still trying to hold back the frontier of wildlife destruction for non-engineered nature.
South Africa exports ‘unapproved’ GM maize to Zimbabwe, continues to export to Mexico, contaminating both the region and centre of origin
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African Centre for Biosafety, ETC Group, FoodMattersZimbabwe and CTDT
Johannesburg, Harare, Mexico City 15 April 2013
A Mammoth Distraction - Syn Bio and 'De-extinction'.
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A Mammoth Distraction - Syn Bio and 'De-extinction'.
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The distracting allure of a technofix is a common trick deployed by those pushing risky technologies. Nuclear power we are told might just solve climate change, GM food could feed the hungry, "DDT is good for you" etc. But the latest eyecatching technofix under discussion at a conference in Cambridge this week is a real dodo: 'Synthetic Biology' we are now told will reverse extinction of species and conserve biodiversity. Really ?
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