Environmental Studies
Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Genetic Engineering
Biodiversity Project
http://www.biodiversityproject.org/
Biodiversity Project works to make people aware of the importance of biodiversity and to build their commitment to saving it. Our task is to engage and empower people to act by making the connection between biodiversity and people's daily lives and basic values.
Biodiversity Project meets this challenge by developing communications strategies that motivate people to protect biodiversity.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
Council for Responsible Genetics
http://www.gene-watch.org/
The Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute accurate information and represent the public interest on emerging issues in biotechnology.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
European Bioinformatics Institute
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/index.html
(Last checked 02/25/08)
National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/
The National Agricultural Biotechnology Council has been hosting annual public meetings about the safe, ethical, and efficacious development of agricultural biotechnology products since its formation by the Boyce Thompson Institute in collaboration with Cornell University, Iowa State University, and the University of California-Davis in 1988. Today the organization, a not-for-profit consortium of 34 leading agricultural research and teaching governmental agencies / institutions / universities in the U.S. and Canada, continues to provide all stakeholders the opportunity to speak, to listen, and to learn about the issues surrounding agricultural biotechnology.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information -- all for the better understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
(Last checked 02/25/08)
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