Reblogged from The Louisiana Sinkhole Bugle:
This is additional material to an item from our parent blog - BP's synthetic lifeform let loose in the Gulf
With little oversight, BP, Chevron, ADM, and Cargill cook up next-gen biofuels
By Hope Shand
Synthetic biologists, a brave new breed of science entrepreneurs who engineer life-forms from scratch, are holding their largest-ever global gathering in Hong Kong this week, known as “Synthetic Biology 4.0.” .








