LinksThe Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies. CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute accurate information and represent the public interest on emerging issues in biotechnology. The Union of Concerned Scientists is an independent nonprofit alliance of more than 100,000 concerned citizens and scientists. UCS augments rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world. Mission 2011 at MIT is a program in which students learn to solve complex problems as a team. This year they are focusing on preservation of the world's oceans. Campus Ecology is a program through the National Wildlife Foundation that is helping transform the nation's college campuses into living models of an ecologically sustainable society, and training a new generation of environmental leaders. Campus Ecology supports and promotes positive and practical conservation projects on campus and beyond. The journal Nature has a freely available page of all the latest in science news. PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization committed to making scientific and medical literature a public resource. PubMed Central is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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