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Poor countries urged to get ready for synthetic biology
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On January 17th, the Science and Development Network published this article from Mićo Tatalović on synthetic biology products:
Environmental campaigners are urging developing countries to include the rapidly advancing science of synthetic biology —the building of new organisms using genes as biological ‘bricks’— in their biosafety…
Position of communication and public engagement manager
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A position of manager of the Communication and Public Engagement Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Europe’s largest genome centre) is open for applications. The job is full-time and based at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in Hinxton, south of Cambridge. This person needs to be a dynamic communicator with high-level negotiation skills.
Closing date: 16 December, 2010.
Craig Venter creates the company Synthetic Genomics
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The scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines —and drew comparisons to Dr. Frankenstein— when he announced in May that his team had created what, with a bit of stretching, could be called the first synthetic living creature.
Two months later, only a smattering of reporters and local dignitaries bothered to show up at a news conference to hear Dr. Venter talk about a new greenhouse that his company, Synthetic Genomics, had built outside its headquarters here to conduct research.
Read the full story in The New York Times
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