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Reading Day: Crowdsourcing HIV, Bioengineering Mosquitoes, and the G20 Summit
November 5, 2011 5 min. read

  This week, UNAIDS has launched a new project to work with young people for a youth-centered HIV strategy.  Scientists are moving into the next stages of deploying genetically-modified mosquitoes to combat insect-borne diseases like dengue, and concerns about the risks of bioengineering have been raised.  The G-20 Summit in Cannes could not get out […]

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No Universal Solutions: The Politics of Biotechnology in Europe and the United States
January 12, 2011 8 min. read

by Sheila Jasanoff In May 2003, the United States and several cooperating countries filed a case at the World Trade Organization (WTO) charging the European Union (EU) with maintaining an illegal, non-science based moratorium on genetically modified (GM) food and crops. Almost three years later, in February 2006, the WTO concluded that EU inaction between […]

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