Bioscience Resource Project
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| Type | 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit |
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| Focus | Science, Food and Agriculture, Health, Environment, Biotechnology, Biosafety |
| Established | 2006 |
| Location | Ithaca, New York |
| Key people | Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director; and co-founder Allison Wilson, PhD, Science Director |
| Websites | http://www.bioscienceresource.org/ http://independentsciencenews.org/ |
The Bioscience Resource Project is an advocacy organization focused on agriculture-related biosciences since 2006.[1] In 2011, they started the Independent Science News website.
History
Drs. Allison Wilson and Jonathan Latham initiated the Bioscience Resource Project to help remedy a perceived deficit of independent scientific analysis of genetic engineering and its risks.[2]
Publications
The Bioscience Resource Project publishes biosafety reviews of genetic engineering techniques, such as plant transformation and the use of viral DNA to engineer virus resistance,[3] that are used to produce GM crops for commercial use.[4] The Project reviews (see 1.2 History for titles) are cited in academic articles and books on genetic engineering.[5]
See also
Other organizations
- Center for Food Safety
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Pesticide Action Network
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Union of Concerned Scientists
References
- ^ Lotter, D. (2009) The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 1: The Development of a Flawed Enterprise Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine. Int. Journal of Society of Agriculture and Food. 16(1) p. 40.
- ^ BGER 21:299-324.; Peekhaus W. (2010) The Neoliberal University and Agricultural Biotechnology: Reports from the Field. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 30(6) pp 418-426.; Lotter, D. (2009) The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science – Part 2: Academic Capitalism and the Loss of Scientific Integrity Archived 2012-08-16 at the Wayback Machine. Int. Jrnl. of Soc. Of Agr. and Food. 16(1) 50-68.; Diels J. et al. (2011) Association of Financial or Professional Conflict of Interest to Research Outcomes on Health Risks or Nutritional Assessment Studies of Genetically modified Products Archived 2011-12-15 at the Wayback Machine. Food Policy 36:197-203.
- ^ For a review see: Dasgupta I et al. (2003) Genetic Engineering for Virus Resistance. Current Science 8(3) 341-354.
- ^ For a current list of genetically engineered crops that have been deregulated for commercial use or for links to the applications for deregulation themselves (i.e. the documents that describe the engineering techniques used and the safety tests performed, that are submitted by applicants to regulators when they claim GMO biosafety) see: Petitions for Nonregulated Status Granted or Pending by APHIS Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ To see who has cited the articles go to the Google Scholar citation results for each paper. One example can be accessed at: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4804465282536140920&as_sdt=5,33&sciodt=0,33&hl=en