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Should genetically modified organisms be part of our conservation efforts? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Nov 16, 2016 •

By Fern Wickson, GenØk – Centre for Biosafety Biotechnology is rapidly evolving through developments in genome editing and synthetic biology, giving birth to new forms of life. This technology has already given us genetically modified (GM) plants that produce bacterial pesticides, GM mosquitos that are sterile and GM mice that develop human cancers. Now, new biotechnological techniques … Read More

One from the archives - The Dismal Science

Bill Kaye-Blake • Apr 17, 2013 •

Publishing academic articles is complicated. You have an idea, you do the research, you turn it into a paper. Then what? Well, unpublished papers represent your resources, which you have to turn into products/commodities. It’s a bit like exporting. You could ship off raw logs to whomever will take them — there’s always some obscure [...] … Read More