“We live in a capitalist system, somebody has to fund this research and science. The government doesn’t have the money.”
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Jay Keasling, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) program, founder of the new Richmond lab, and pioneer of synthetic biology research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley, responding to concerns about the large energy and biotechnology corporations that are “funding this research and licensing the patented new technologies it produces.”

Life is hard.

Jul. 13 2012
Via sfbg.com
#genetics #synthetic biology #capitalism #berkeley #uc berkeley
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