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Hacked genetic code worse than a computer virus
Environmental Cartoons —
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GMWatch reports, that many NGO organizations have criticized Bill Gates for pushing GMO plants to Africa: African NGOs slam Gates’ neo-colonial strategy Bill Gates reveals love of GMOs Africa: Profits Before People – the Great African Liquidation Sale Now also Sierra Club has sent an open letter ...7 hours ago -
Mix-It-Up Friday Contest!
Caridad Pineiro Blog —
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We’re having a spontaneous contest today! Leave your mixed up version of an old adage here by midnight EST on Saturday, November 14, for a chance to win a copy of FURY CALLS and a SINS OF THE FLESH T-shirt! So how does this mix-it-up Friday contest work – here’s a sample: Old adage: A good man is hard to ...2 days ago -
Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?
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This video from the political advocacy group Greenpeace, provides an overview of the contentious issues of biotechnology (genetic engineering) as it applies to food production. In some ways, biotechnology is the equivalent of the abortion rights issue of the agriculture world. Both sides of the debate hold ...2 days ago -
The Armageddon Bug
EbioAnt —
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By Paul D Maher In Michael Creighton’s 1969 best selling thriller, "The Andomeda Strain" a satellite crashes back to Earth carrying with it an extraterrestrial pathogen that threatens all human life. For genetic researchers in Canberra Australia no such dramatic entrance was needed to come face to face with a ...3 days ago -
Corporate agriculture industry plans “organic” genetically engineered crops to fight climate change
Aftermath News —
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Organic GM alternative considered Freshinfo.com | Nov 11, 2009 Concern was raised over the organic agriculture industry’s ability to cope with the onslaught of climate change while spurning GM technologies, at a high-level debate in the capital last week. A panel of experts discussed the possibilities for ...4 days ago -
Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews: Volume 25 by Stephen E. Harding
Free Your Mind All Free Download —
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464 pages | Nottingham University Press (April 1, 2009) | 1904761666 | PDF | Containing more than a dozen original, major review articles from authors published in leading journals and covering important developments in industrial, agricultural, and medical applications of biotechnology, this newest edition from the ...4 days ago -
Schools Out -- Forever
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This second book in the Maximum Ride series picks up where the first book left off. Therefore, there may be minor spoilers in this review, so if you are interested in reading this series, I suggest you check out my review of the first book - the series really requires reading the books in order, as there is no real ...5 days ago -
Accelerating Stem cell generation
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Hanna, et al. at Rudolf Jaenisch’s lab in MIT have discovered an approach to speed up generation of induced pluripotent cells (iPS), importantly with efficiency rate approaching ~ 100%. Low efficient rate of transformation was one of the biggest obstacle so far in iPS creation. In a news story at nature.com, lab ...6 days ago -
Learning How Animals Regenerate Body Parts
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Salk Institute scientists found that dual-purpose switches controlled many of the genes activated in the regenerating cells of a zebra fish’s tail.6 days ago -
Cloned Meat and Its Place on The Dinner Table
Socyberty —
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Source If you were served a perfectly grilled burger, and then told that it came from a cloned cow, would you eat it? To most, the answer would be no. According to six of ten Americans, the risks and ethics associated with artificially birthed meat are just too numerous to maintain peace of mind. Therefore, along ...1 week ago -
Paul C. Zamecnik, Biologist Who Helped Discover an RNA Molecule, Dies at 96
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Paul Zamecniks work also led the way to a new class of drugs.1 week ago -
Farmers Skirt Rules on Gene-Altered Crops, Report Says
NYT > Theater —
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As many as 25 percent of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules designed to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects.1 week ago -
Tiny injector to speed development of new, safer, cheaper drugs
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Its no bigger than a stamp packet but it has the potential to allow rapid development of a new generation of drugs and genetic engineering organisms, and to better control in-vitro fertilization.1 week ago -
Scientists Breed A Smarter Rat!
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Scientists have engineered a more intelligent rat , with three times the memory length of today’s smartest rats! Reseachers bred transgenic over-expression of the NR2B gene, which increased communication between the rat’s memory synapses. Activating a crucial brain receptor for just a fraction of a second longer ...1 week ago -
No One Wants GE Canola, So Why Grow it in WA?
Greenpeace Australia Pacific —
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The WA Premier Colin Barnett has said he wants to see genetically engineered (GE) canola produced in Western Australia. It is hard to see why when there is no market in the world that wants it. Last week Greenpeace launched the 2010 Truefood Guide . It rates over a thousand of Australia’s top food and beverage ...1 week ago -
Genetics in Fiction @ Clarkesworld
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Roger Moraga has a nice article in the current issue of Clarkesworld Magazine on " Modern Genetics in the World of Fiction ": Most of the time there is a certain amount of unrealistic superscience involved in the creation of speculative fiction, but as a geneticist I cant help but wonder if it is really necessary to ...1 week ago -
Bt brinjal is not safe for consumption: Chhattisgarh Government
Thaindian News —
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Ranchi, Nov 2(ANI): Chhattisgarh Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu on Monday said that the State Government opposed the cultivation of genetically modified Bt brinjal in the State, as the genetically modified crop is not safe for consumption. Sahu’s comment comes after the Genetic Engineering Approval ...1 week ago -
Rich ‘may evolve into separate species’
Aftermath News —
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The rich could all be cyborgs in the future. “Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating ...1 week ago -
Zero tolerance for GM foods in Europe
Aftermath News —
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For Europeans, genetic engineering of plant life is ‘sinful’ thehindubusinessline.com | Nov 2, 2009 by Mohan Murti Food is to European culture what free speech is to American culture. There may not always be a good scientific reason for concern, but to consider eating something that has resulted from some ...1 week ago -
Verdezyne Raises $3M in Venture Funding to Advance Industrial Biotechnology
Xconomy —
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funding , Industrial Biotechnology , VC Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: Carlsbad CA-based Verdezyne, which just disclosed a $1.7 million government grant, has raised nearly $3 million of a planned $15.2 million round of venture capital, according to a regulatory filing yesterday. The company, which was ...2 weeks ago