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• Holiday Free Fiction: R3

  
  Biology in Science Fiction — Authority: 412
  Damn right were Christmas—a holiday all about the foolish belief in the impossible. Flying reindeer are perfect for impossible. Doubters said you couldnt make flying reindeer, and they were right: Were not really reindeer; were more like a whole new animal on a reindeer chassis. R3 isnt really a reindeer, and hes ...
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• Study Proves Three Monsanto Corn Varieties Are Poison to the Organism

  
  Uncensored Magazine — Authority: 138
  
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• What Are The Animals Becoming?

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 474
  Since I went for things made of metal skins and electrical guts last month when I wrote about weird robots, I decided to opt for warm-blooded carbon-based life forms this time around – so welcome to the December column on smart animals! Now, we’re a dog family, and we have a golden retriever and two border ...
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• Chemically Enhancing Plants to Absorb More CO2

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 467
  Ikuko Hara-Nishimura, chief researcher at Tokyo University, has discovered a means to increase plants’ ability to absorb carbon dioxide, which could “ease global warming and boost food production.”  By soaking seeds in a protein solution called Stomagen, plant leaves contain more porous stomata and starch ...
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• Avatar shows Wellington at cinema’s leading edge

  
  NewsWire.co.nz — Authority: 135
  Scene from the landmark Wellington-made 3D film, Avatar. Photo: Fox International Local film production innovators are reaping the reward of global attention after James Cameron’s Avatar premiered in London to glowing reviews. KYLIE KLEIN-NIXON spoke to a leading figure at Park Road Post Production about the 3D ...
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• Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 121
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite the best practices [to stop contamination](1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bayer Admits GMO Contamination is Out of Control

  
  Heidi-Lore's Musings — Authority: 125
  EXTRACT: Bayer has admitted it has been unable to control the spread of its genetically-engineered organisms despite ‘the best practices [to stop contamination]‘(1). It shows that all outdoors field trials or commercial growing of GE crops must be stopped before our crops are irreversibly contaminated. — — $2 ...
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• 38 Genetically engineered ingredients in our food

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  Over the past decade four large multinational corporations -Monsanto, Aventis, Syngenta, Dow Agro Sciences, have been quietly applying for approval to add more and more genetically engineered ingredients into our food. These five corporations have been given the green light to bring into New Zealand an astonishing 38 ...
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• GM AND PESTICIDES – NEW REPORT

  
  Uncensored Magazine — Authority: 138
  
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• US$ 2 million verdict against Bayer for genetic contamination

  
  Greenpeace - Making Waves — Authority: 462
  Experimental rice crop, planted in the wild, contaminated an estimated 30% of US rice stocks.
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• Seychelles to Seek Cuban Help to Treat Diabetes

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  The Seychelles Ministry of Health is to seek the help of the Cuban government to make available a landmark treatment for diabetes that has a very high success rate in avoiding amputations following a visit of President James Michel to Cuba. Sources indicate that during his visit Michel met with the Cuban Minister for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Study: Biotech Mice With Two Moms (and No Dad) Live Longer

  
  80beats — Authority: 636
  Researchers have long sought an answer to burning question of why women live longer on average then men (you know, other than the fact that, as Harry Belafonte puts it, “ man smart, woman smarter “). Now a new study in Human Reproduction by Japanese researchers reinforces the argument that the fault lies in ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Hundred Paths of Transhumanism

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  What is Transhumanism? The term itself has many definitions, depending on who you ask. The stock meaning is that transhumanism is a step toward being ‘posthuman’, and that term is subject to many iterations also. One definition of  being transhuman is using advanced technology to increase or preserve the ...
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• State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Via: KXAN:When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit.Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children.Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law mandates ...
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• FTR #694 The Perfect War Machine

  
  Dave Emory's "For The Record" — Authority: 103
  Deadly, cancer-causing virus SV40 decommissions cellular mechanisms that prevent cancer, activates mechanisms producing uncontrolled cell growth, scrambles the nuclei of infected cells, causes adjacent cells to become malignant.
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• 93% of Soybeans, 80% of Corn Grown from Genetically-Modified Monsanto Seeds

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 540
  Peter Whoriskey reports in the Washington Post : For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation’s two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of soybeans. Eighty ...
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• Artificial, Engineered Soggy Meat Grown in Netherlands Lab

  
  Green Living Ideas — Authority: 467
  Engineered food has just taken another move towards science fiction:  artificial meat.  Researchers in the Netherlands have grown what they describe as “soggy pork” in a laboratory and believe it will be available for human consumption in about five years.   The artificial meat was grown from the live muscle ...
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• U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto

  
  cryptogon.com — Authority: 147
  Oh sure.Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of AgricultureObama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety PostHas anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies?I’d guess that the answer ...
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• Scientists ‘grow’ meat in laboratory

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 444
  The move towards artificially engineered foods has taken a step forward after scientists grew a form of meat in a laboratory for the first time. Telegraph | Nov 29, 2009 By Nick Britten Researchers in the Netherlands have created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the ...
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• The “300 Bushel Corn” Challenge

  
  CleanBeta — Authority: 127
  While the recent rise in crop prices have relented, the long-term decline in inflation-adjusted crop prices has probably leveled off in the past 10 to 20 years. Crop yields are only one measure of productivity, but they are a key factor fueling changes in inflation-adjusted crop prices. Many factors were behind the ...
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