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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

government. For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. government took Indigenous children, including at least one of Patterson’s own relatives, and placed them in boarding schools. Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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WCS Event: More Women on Corporate Boards | February 20, 2020

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

While in the last few years, there’s been a push by state and national governments to require more gender diversity representation on corporate boards, women are largely underrepresented as corporate board members. Yet we are under represented at the governance level of corporations. As of 2018, women held only 20.8% trillion in sales.

Law 52
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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. This led to a government consultation on the matter. And that's a problem.