Synthetic Biology: all materials

Political-style cartoon of Victorian machine, with brain tech, cyborg potatoes and solar radiation management pollution
ARIA: The UK's dubious 'deep tech' agency
In 2025 a new ‘high risk-high reward’ agency funded by the UK Government began bankrolling outdoor solar geoengineering experiments, in direct contravention of agreed international moratoria and norms. We decided to take a closer look. 20 Mar 2026
'Black Box’ Biotech
Integration of artificial intelligence with synthetic biology 5 Sep 2024
Voices from COP15 in Montreal
An interview with Christine von Weizsäcker of ECOROPA 8 Dec 2022
Protecting a Legacy of Precaution at COP-15
Bringing Horizon Scanning, Technology Assessment and Monitoring into the future work of the CBD 24 Nov 2022
Is the UN Convention on Biodiversity losing the precautionary plot?
9 Nov 2022
Box containing a card game with illustrations from the game
Our new game "Disruption!: a battle for the future of food"
12 Feb 2021
Butterfly in Glen Art Reserve, East Gippsland, Australia
Has the synthetic biology industry hijacked IUCN?
Gates-funded synbio lobby firm Emerging Ag Inc takes driving seat in IUCN discussion on biodiversity and synbio. 3 Sep 2020
Gene Drive Organisms
An introduction to a dangerous new technology putting Africans at risk 2 Dec 2019
ETC Podcast Episode #1: Gene drives in Africa
11 Nov 2019
Was world conservation agency's report on genetic engineering and gene drive organisms rigged?
Clear evidence of bias and conflicts of interest found by monitoring group 8 Jul 2019
Civil Society Denounces the Release of GM mosquitoes in Burkina Faso
2 Jul 2019
Video: From the Lab to the Field to the Forest
Synthetic biology on the loose 21 Jun 2019
The first page of the report
Driving Under the Influence
A review of the evidence for bias and conflict of interest in the IUCN report on synthetic biology and gene drive organisms 21 Jun 2019
Rise of the Petri-Proteins?
Some likely effects of lab-grown meat-like substances on farmers, food systems and the climate 5 Apr 2019
Lab-grown meat and other Petri-protein industries
1 Apr 2019

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