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• Seychelles to Seek Cuban Help to Treat Diabetes

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  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 ...
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• Study: Biotech Mice With Two Moms (and No Dad) Live Longer

  
  80beats — Authority: 626
  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 ...
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• The Hundred Paths of Transhumanism

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 125
  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: 148
  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: 105
  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: 566
  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: 539
  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: 148
  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: 446
  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: 131
  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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• The Best of Fast Company: SocialCycling, Wal-Marts Sustainable Pizza Box, and GMO Soybeans Get Healthy

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  This week at Fast Company, we looked at an upcycling service for unrecyclable items, Wal-Marts small strides towards big advances in sustainability, Monsantos fish oil-filled soybeans, and the future of virtual doctor care.DMD Greens new SocialCyclng service is like a Craigslist for unrecyclable items, taking things ...
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• What is Evolution? Reviewing the Terms

  
  Jesus Lives! — Authority: 149
  From Koinonia House WHAT IS EVOLUTION? REVIEWING THE TERMS Darwin’s Origin of Species celebrates its 150th birthday on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, and during those 150 years Darwin’s ideas have come to dominate scientific disciplines from biology to archeology to sociology and everything in between. ...
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• Glowing Bacteria to Track Long Buried Landmines

  
  The Daily Galaxy: Great Discoveries Channel — Authority: 577
  Over thirty people will be killed or maimed by unexploded landmines today.  One was probably taken out as you had lunch.  They will lose limbs or lives as forgotten explosives from a now-pointless conflict erupt to devastate them and their community, and some Scottish students could stop this with the power of ...
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• The Bt Brinjal debate

  
  A New Praxis in a changed world — Authority: 108
  Many questions crop up even as an expert committee gives clearance for cultivation of Bt Brinjal The approval given to cultivation of genetically modified (GM) Bt Brinjal crop by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) would pave the way for entry of the first GM food crop to be grown in India. ...
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• Agriculture : The Uses of Biotechnology

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 550
  Genetic science in agriculture:The uses of biotechnologyBy Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 22, 2009I recently wrote about GMO’s on The Rag Blog ("The Future of Agriculture: Genetics and the Limits of Oil") and I want to expand a little on the thoughts I presented in that article.Biotechnology is a powerful new ...
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• Editorial: A Ban on Genetic Discrimination

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A new law rightly protects people who have inherited a predisposition to disease and opens a door to genetic testing.
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• Things dont look good.

  
  MUNNA ON THE RUN — Authority: 112
  The shit, as the say, is going to hit the fan in December. If you read the text on the image you will know why. Here is the full report. And here are the reasons why you must oppose GM Food. Because if you dont there is going to be nothing left to oppose. We lose our food security, we lose our sovereignty. But ...
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• UCR plant scientists research spawns new discoveries showing how crops survive drought

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 637
  RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has greatly accelerated scientists knowledge on how plants and crops can survive difficult environmental conditions such as drought.
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• The Future of Agriculture : Genetics and the Limits of Oil

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 550
  Agriculture, genetics and a sustainable future......the oil requirement for U.S. food production and transportation will no doubt loom as a much bigger factor, forcing a restructuring of the food industry.By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / November 18, 2009An old friend, Val Liveoak, posting on a Rag-junkie list, drew my ...
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