{"id":603,"date":"2012-02-20T00:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T00:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/?p=603"},"modified":"2012-02-17T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:48:26","slug":"the-news-net-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/2012\/02\/20\/the-news-net-3","title":{"rendered":"The News Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/files\/2012\/02\/news-net23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-612\" title=\"news net2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/files\/2012\/02\/news-net23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"86\" \/><\/a>Our roundup of news stories you may have missed includes strong words from an Indian pioneer, adding a dash of biotech to Kenyan schools and a peek into the world of DIY biotech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Kiran Mazumdar Shaw<\/strong><\/span>, chairman of Indian biotech giant Biocon, has called on her government to move quickly to facilitate the growth of biotech. Her wishlist for startups includes a regulatory framework and access to seed money, perhaps through a stock exchange. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/lackregulation-hurting-biotech-sector\/463884\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"> Participants at a biosafety<\/span><\/strong> workshop in Kisumu, Kenya, are calling for GMO crop production and biotech foods to be part of Kenya\u2019s education curriculum. <span style=\"color: #262626;\">Educators say introducing Kenyans to the technology at a later stage in life may be to blame for widespread misconceptions. More <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201202060559.html\">here<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"> Finally<\/span>,<\/strong> the <em>HuffPo<\/em> takes a look at the burgeoning DIY biotech movement, where hackers \u201coperating in the near-empty spectrum between academia and big biotechnology companies\u201d are pursuing exciting science with scavenged equipment and outsourced technologies. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/andrew-hessel\/cathal-garvey_b_1282587.html\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our roundup of news stories you may have missed includes strong words from an Indian pioneer, adding a dash of biotech to Kenyan schools and a peek into the world of DIY biotech.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/2012\/02\/20\/the-news-net-3#wpn-more-603\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/2012\/02\/20\/the-news-net-3\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/tradesecrets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}