Timeline of the history of modifying crops and biotechnology, from ancient Egypt to today #GMO #GECrops #biotech

Daisy Drives - chaining of CRISPR gene drives to limit spread to local populations. New paper on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/early/…

DNA distribution kits for iGEM China teams arrived. Our China colleagues will distribute them soon iGEM Headquarters #iGEM2016

.Seeding Labs is boosting science in developing countries by facilitating access to lab equipment - pretty great! x.com/alicemarks0/st…

ICYMI, the Senate passed #TSCA reform last night. Now goes to President Donald J. Trump. Implementation will be key. Union of Concerned Scientists statement ucsusa.org/news/press-rel…

!!! "humans leak 8 million tons of plastic into the ocean yearly...if no change, we’ll double that in 10 years." pri.org/stories/2016-0…

we went inside the largest gene drive program in world, funded w/ $44 million from Gates to stop malaria technologyreview.com/s/601213/the-e…

Our #GeneDriveStudy four-page report-in-brief now available here: ow.ly/LkiI30135iu

Palm Oil's Human Cost Alleged in New Report on.natgeo.com/217Q59e via National Geographic

NYT story on NAS gene drive report nytimes.com/2016/06/09/sci… Reads as moderately favorable to the technology. HT Stewart Brand

iGEM at UVA talks with Virginia’s First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe about synthetic biology #igem bio.as.virginia.edu/content/uva-st…

Perhaps timely: daisy drive, a way to alter only local populations via CRISPR. Preprint: responsivescience.org/pub/daisydrives #genedrive

The report release event for Gene Drive Research in Non-Human Organisms is now available to watch online: buff.ly/1U7Fg50

The building vacuum line was out but an enterprising grad student refused to give up.

New on the blog: Midsummer Madness - A News Roundup of #Synbio Moonshoots blogs.plos.org/synbio/2016/06…

One of the many advantages of #NgAgo - no PAM requirement! But will it beat #CRISPR? hubs.ly/H03gwh60

Zika: Researcher accidentally infects herself with virus - CNN.com cnn.com/2016/06/10/hea…

Great critique of great National Academies report on #GeneDriveStudy, by Jim Thomas of ETC Group: gu.com/p/4kz3d/stw.