Empowering citizen scientists
Nature, 01 Sep 2015.
A scientifically literate general public ranks high on the wish list of biological researchers. According to a poll taken at a recent synthetic biology conference, scientists see a public uninformed about biotechnology as a threat to their work. Instead they want the 'man on the street' to understand and support what goes on in the lab. Read more in Nature.
Image: Redmap citizen scientist Georgia Poyner in NSW