Friday, April 27, 2012

Developing countries face up to synthetic biology challenges

SciDev.Net: As commercial synthetic biology production gathers speed, there are growing calls for greater regulation, reports Yojana Sharma. Debate about the governance of the emerging field of synthetic biology is likely to see disagreements among developing countries at a meeting of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) in Montreal, Canada, next week (30 April--5 May). While some want tighter regulation and are concerned that commercial...

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