biotechnology

Berkeley scientist fights for equal treatment

University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Integrative Biology, Dr. Tyrone Hayes has a laboratory in which a number of the nation’s brightest scientific minds are helping him with research into herbicides and their effects on poor and minority people.

However, his funding has been discontinued.

He isn’t claiming that the herbicide company that has disparaged his research is the cause of the cuts, but he does point out what he sees as a disparity in his treatment at Berkeley, and he explains his discouragement over the whole affair.

 

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