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Synthetic biology: Coming soon to a gas tank near you?

Posted on October 10, 2008

By Guest authorThis is a guest post by Hope Shand, research director of ETC Group, a civil-society organization that tracks new technologies, monitors corporate concentration, and supports food sovereignty. -------Synthetic biologists, a brave new breed of science entrepreneurs who engineer life-forms from scratch, are holding their largest-ever global gathering in Hong Kong this week, known as Synthetic Biology 4.0. Although most people have never heard of synthetic biology, it's moving full speed ahead fueled by giant agribusiness, energy and chemical corporations with little debate about...

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