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GMO DEBATE has been muddied by Monsanto's bullying clumsiness, by lateral gene transfer and by propaganda on both sides. It is time to rationally and transparently assess the facts, since the horse has already bolted. We are on the verge of infinite possibilities of synthetic biology that frankly makes this old GMO debate quaint if it were not so fouled. . http://lnkd.in/6FDBWW View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO. "Over the last decade, many diverse interests have contributed to this ambition of an easy-to-manipulate biology, as the field of synthetic biology has spread around research labs all over the world. Scientists, engineers, policymakers, industrialists, space agencies, politicians, and even designers are constructing a future defined by the grand rhetoric of a world-changing, world-saving technology."" " http://lnkd.in/g-5F28 View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY RESOURCE. " " http://en.kingabdulazizcenter.com/explore/ongoing-activities/keystone/synthetic-biology#.UhBXXPoayc0 View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO BIG SCIENCE for the new Knowledge Economy. Scale counts to make a big jump forward in Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology. Europe has taken a leadership position with an impressive number of large publicly funded initiatives in medicine, agriculture, energy and the silicon human initiative. Very large sums of money are placing the bet that this technology will pay off in the new Knowledge Economy. " " http://lnkd.in/Ex-vVB View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO BIZ. "The number of private and public entities conducting research in synthetic biology worldwide grew significantly between 2009 and 2013, according to the latest version of an interactive map produced by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The map...is populated with more than 500 companies, universities, research institutions and other entities working on synthetic biology."" " http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130430161942.htm View in LinkedIn

VENTER ON SYNBIO VACCINES. "Many applications are fermenting in Venter’s fertile imagination. “At some time in the future, you might have a little biological box attached to your computer,” he says. “You could use it, for example, if there is a pandemic. As soon as a vaccine is available, you could download the instructions and make it yourself, avoiding the huge delays and bottlenecks in manufacturing and distribution today.”" " http://lnkd.in/iFEVFD View in LinkedIn

J CRAIG VENTER digitizing life makes almost anything possible: “Digital life and actual life are getting closer and closer together. We can digitise a genome and transmit the information down the internet to a digital-biological converter, which can turn it back into DNA in a real cell.”" " http://lnkd.in/N2iWs2 View in LinkedIn

GEORGE CHURCH gets silly. "In 2012, George M. Church encoded one of his books about synthetic biology in DNA. The 5.3 Mb of data from the book is more than 1000 times greater than the previous largest amount of information to be stored in synthesized DNA."" " http://lnkd.in/TC5QS9. View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO: LIFE FROM INKJET PRINTERS. Try and explain this to your elderly relative! "Oligonucleotides harvested from a photolithographic or inkjet manufactured DNA chip combined with DNA mismatch error-correction allows inexpensive large-scale changes of codons in genetic systems to improve gene expression or incorporate novel amino-acids (see George M. Church's and Anthony Forster's synthetic cell projects.) This favors a synthesis-from-scratch approach."" " http://lnkd.in/TC5QS9 View in LinkedIn

SYNBIO FIELDS. "Studies in synthetic biology can be subdivided into broad classifications according to the approach they take to the problem at hand: (1). photocell design; (2). biomolecular engineering; (3). genome engineering; and (4). biomolecular-design." And of course, to create life from scratch. " " http://lnkd.in/TC5QS9 View in LinkedIn