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

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. This particular case centered around whether tribes had to pay local and state taxes on ancestral land that they bought back on the real estate market. (Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

That’s when the idea for Mi Terro, his social impact biotechnology company focused on turning milk waste into fibers that can be used in apparel and packaging, started to bubble up. . The pandemic is halting some projects while exposing the overlap on the map between historical, real-estate redlining and today’s high COVID-19 rates.