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How You Can Address Global Warming

May 23, 2007

At the October ICSB meeting, Hiroaki Kitano called for systems biologists to consider how to apply system-level approaches to climate change issues and now Jonathan Eisen is asking microbiologists to do the same, says Seven Stones blogger Nicholas. Not only will systems and synthetic biology add to fundamental knowledge about the issue, he says, they will also help getting that know-how into workable technologies.

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