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Craig Venter’s New Save-the-World Project: A 3-D Printer for Vaccinesby Jessica Cussins, Biopolitical TimesOctober 25th, 2012Craig Venter never fails to provide great media headlines. But the actual feasibility (or desirability) of his new project – to email digitized vaccines anywhere in the world to be printed ready to use – is dubious.

Bill McKibben on Real Time With Bill Maherby Osagie K. Obasogie, Biopolitical TimesOctober 18th, 2012Bill McKibben discusses the radical implications of climate change and the troubling proposal made by some to "alter [human] behavior and physiology" to deal with these changes.

Genome Hunters Go After Martian DNAby Antonio Regalado, Technology ReviewOctober 18th, 2012J. Craig Venter may have just started a race to discover alien life on the Red Planet.

Weird Science: The Promise and Peril of Synthetic Biologyby Jeff Conant, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2012A wave of gene therapies, pharmaceuticals, genetically engineered crops, and manufactured biofuels have transformed science, medicine, industry, and quite possibly, global ecology.

Books and JavaScript Stored in DNA Molecules by Douglas Heaven, New ScientistAugust 16th, 2012George Church and colleagues have encoded a 53,400-word book into sequences of DNA.

Synthetic 'Upgrade' for Fruit Fly's DNA by Linda Geddes, New ScientistAugust 13th, 2012The genetic code of the fruit fly Drosophila has been hacked into, allowing it to make proteins with properties that don't exist in the natural world.

Life: Digital and Synthetic?by Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJuly 20th, 2012As Craig Venter unveils his newest plan to create life from scratch, questions about what this means and the consequences of doing so abound. What is life? A strange – perhaps obtuse – question. But the answer has profound consequences for how we as a society come to grips with novel biotechnologies.

Synthetic Collaborations and Experimental Human Scienceby Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJuly 13th, 2012A new book explores how human scientists and natural scientists might interact differently, and raises concerns about synthetic biology.

Should People be Allowed To Sell Their Organs?by Alice Park, Time / CNNJuly 3rd, 2012A U.S. Appeals Court has allowed donors to sell their bone marrow for up to $3,000. Could organs and other body parts soon carry a price tag as well?

Craig Venter’s Bugs Might Destroy the Worldby Daniel Sharp, Biopolitical TimesJune 22nd, 2012A recent article in The New York Times Sunday Magazine hypes Craig Venter and synthetic biology as green solutions to the world’s woes. The real story is what the article missed.

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