Biotechnologies

Amyris Biotechnologies, for example, says it has also created bacteria capable of providing renewable hydrocarbon-based fuels.

Fuel from germs ewillett 2010

This past fall the National Council of Churches USA issued a draft policy statement related to this issue called Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: A Policy on Human Biotechnologies.

Science 2009

On Monday, a Massachussetts company called Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has the technology to convert carbon dioxide directly into transportation fuels and chemicals.

The first sentence I wrote today… ewillett 2009

Amyris Biotechnologies, for example, says it has also created bacteria capable of providing renewable hydrocarbon-based fuels.

Fuel from germs ewillett 2010

In July, Dow Chemical Co. joined forces with Colorado start-up OPX Biotechnologies Inc. to develop a biological source of acrylic acid that the companies hope will replace its petroleum-based equivalent.

BASF Will Join Venture to Make Sugars for Plastic Angel Gonzalez 2012

Susan Hardin, founder and CEO of VisiGen Biotechnologies in Houston, said her goal was to sequence a human genome in a couple of hours for under $1,000—how about $995?

The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

Susan Hardin, president of VisiGen Biotechnologies Inc. of Houston, one of three teams already registered in the competition, figures it will take about seven years before that goal can be reached.

$10 Million X Prize Offered for Genetics Challenge | Impact Lab 2006

An additional bit of information that I wasn't able to fit into the column, but that shows just who on the Council is driven by agendas, is this appendix by Janet Rowley, (Dr. Blackburn's co-author in the PlosBiology article, which charges the Council of being politicized) in the Council's most recent report, Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (emphasis mine, although she emphasized those points, too, along with others.):

Medpundit 2004

An additional bit of information that I wasn't able to fit into the column, but that shows just who on the Council is driven by agendas, is this appendix by Janet Rowley, (Dr. Blackburn's co-author in the PlosBiology article, which charges the Council of being politicized) in the Council's most recent report, Reproduction and Responsibility: The Regulation of New Biotechnologies (emphasis mine, although she emphasized those points, too, along with others.):

Archive 2004-04-01 2004

For more information about research cloning, human reproductive cloning, gene patents, legislation, eugenics, and human rights issues, see “Emerging Biotechnologies” W80 on the companion website, www.ourbodiesourselves.org.

OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005