The aluminium smelter and power plant projects are part of a larger plan to industrialize northeastern Iceland with energy-intensive industries, first dreamed up in the 1950s and pursued by successive governments without review.

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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Massachusetts in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.

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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Mass. in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.

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