The first Asilomar conference of 1975 has been both celebrated and condemned. Whichever way you lean it was certainly a pivotal moment in the history of biotechnology. Californian researchers working on GM microbes and GM …
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In Testimony, Robert Garry Declines To Rule Out That Researchers Brought Ebola To West Africa In 2014
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Newly released written testimony provided by Robert Garry to the Senate’s Committee on the Origins Of COVID-19 documents him evading questions about whether his institution brought Ebola virus to West Africa …
Continue readingThe Future of the Lab Leak Theory
By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD This text was originally posted as a Twitter/X thread. We are reposting it (minus a few typos) as a short essay. 1/ Many people on Twitter are, …
Continue readingThe American Chestnut Foundation Bails as GE Chestnut Develops Growth and Fertility Problems and Fails to Resist the Blight
by Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project Late on Friday, December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) announced they were withdrawing their support for the “Darling 58” (D58) genetically engineered American chestnut tree. After …
Continue readingTransgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa
Scientists with an international rice initiative have been raising the alarm about a strain of bacterial blight causing outbreaks in rice fields in East Africa, and they say the patented transgenic varieties they have developed …
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