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The Ashoka Changemakers GMO Risk or Rescue contest is about halfway through its final voting week, a lot has happened in this time, which I will fill you in on, and today I present the second reason why I think Biofortified deserves your vote: Dialogue. One of the reasons why we started a group blog…
Genetic Maize is just one blog about genetic engineering that contributes to the group blog Biofortified. Scientist bloggers at Biofortified have all made a commitment to communicate with the public about GMOs. Biofortified is in the running to win the Ashoka Changemakers contest, GMO Risk or Rescue. But we need your help! The grand prize…
Tomorrow’s Table, the book and blog by Pamela Ronald, has now moved to ScienceBlogs. Home of the popular Pharyngula blog written by PZ Myers, the medical blog Respectful Insolence by Orac, and a whole host of others, this means she will have a lot more exposure and the support of a pool of regular blog…
Biofortified is in the running to win the Ashoka Changemakers contest, GMO Risk or Rescue. But we need your help, dear readers. The contest entries close on October 21, and the voting will continue to the 28th. The grand prize is a $1500 grant and a conversation with Michael Pollan – both of which are…
After much hard work, and diving into php code, I am pleased to announce the launch of the Biofortified Forum! Coming close on the heels of the recent wordpress upgrade, new user registration spam protections, and other little things running in the background that you may or may not have noticed, this new addition is…
I just upgraded Biofortified’s WordPress system, and it appears that the Features Gallery employed by the site theme is not functioning. I know how to fix it, but that will involve replacing the theme with a rewritten one. This might take me about a week to write it and test it out. In the meantime,…
It seems that now there is a lot more time for people to register and vote in the Changemakers “GMO Risk or Rescue” contest, or enter for that matter. Today the deadline for entering the contest has been extended by 40 days to October 21st, and voting will continue until the 28th of October. It…
This afternoon, I polished off my entry into the Ashoka Changemakers GMO “Risk or Rescue” contest, with minutes to go before the deadline. I was going to submit my entry last night, but what I had written on the site’s system disappeared when I tried to publish it. So I had to start all over,…
Editor’s note: The following post was part of an April Fools Joke. Go here for more details. Biofortified is sharing server space with several other sites that I manage, and the time has rolled around again to renew the account. It doesn’t sound like much when you divide it by 12 months, but when it…
Welcome to the 29th edition of Mendel’s Garden, the monthly one-stop-shop for the best the blogosphere has on Genetics. I have hosted the Garden a couple times before on my personal blog, but this month we find ourselves on Biofortified. This is a group blog on plant genetics and genetic engineering, to try to sprinkle…