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Glowing Plants: Crowdsourced Genetic Engineering Project Ignites Controversy
2013-06-11 14:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific America: In April three biohackers from a California Do-It-Yourself biology lab, BioCurious, posted a Kickstarter campaign to crowdsource their plan to bioengineer a glowing plant. They asked for $65,000. But by the close of their campaign at midnight on Thursday, June 6, they had raised a remarkable $484,013. (Meanwhile, BioCurious itself is in financial trouble.) It was the first time anyone had kick-started a genetic engineering project. The group had hit upon a new method for funding biotech, one thats...
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Google Cesar Chavez doodle on Easter ignites furor
2013-03-31 18:47:43| CNET News.com
Twitter is lighting up with a backlash against the choice from prominent Christians. [Read more]
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First Battlefield 4 trailer ignites the senses
2013-03-27 18:36:28| CNET News.com
Lock and load! Electronic Arts and DICE reveal 17 minutes of high-definition gameplay footage -- and a few other details. [Read more]
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Vancouver firm Ballard's deal with Volkwagen ignites share price
2013-03-07 04:16:08| Electronics - Topix.net
Shares in Ballard Power Systems rocketed up 55 per cent Wednesday after it announced a deal with Volkswagen Group worth up to $100 million.
Little Inferno Gleefully Ignites the Deep Dark Pyro Within
2013-02-04 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
From what I've seen of humanity, there's a little pyro locked inside most of us. Maybe it's a universal longing to chase away the darkness with warmth and light, or maybe it's just a genetic quirk coded into our DNA from the days of the Ice Age when cooking up a wooly mammoth meant survival. Or maybe we just really like to see things burn.
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