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• Agriculture : The Uses of Biotechnology

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 562
  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: 912
  A new law rightly protects people who have inherited a predisposition to disease and opens a door to genetic testing.
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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: 643
  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: 562
  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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• BioBricked bacteria glow in the presence of landmines

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 604
  An alarmingly large amount of the world’s surface is strewn with landmines left behind after conflicts of one sort or another , leaving the locals at risk of death and mutilation long after the dispute that caused them to be laid down has ended (or moved elsewhere). Scouting for landmines is a risky job for humans ...
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• GEN reports on enhancing the applications of qPCR

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 160
  (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technology is experiencing a surge of interest and rapid expansion as a result of advances such as instrumentation that pushes capacity to 1,536 wells and optimization-free multiplexing, reports Genetic Engineering & ...
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• Saving millions of lives: Bacteria that light up around Landmines!

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  Landmines are arguably the gravest threat to both humans and wildlife alike in almost 87 countries across the planet and with war times long behind us the ugly scars and the undetonated landmines still haunt those who wish to put the past behind them. In countries such as Sri Lanka over 20 elephants each year are ...
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• Using light to control single brain cells (and thanks to a gene from algae)

  
  Sun and Shield — Authority: 126
  Wired has posted an amazing report on how it is possible to control a single neuron in a mouse brain, by zapping it with light. The reason this works is because researchers have also inserted a gene for light sensitivity into the mouse, so the mouse is a mouse-algal hybrid. (Not really -- its a mouse with one algal ...
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• I.H.T. Special Report: Business of Food: Dutch Cooperative Blurs Food Prejudices

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Johan Schut, a lettuce breeder at Rijk Zwaan, one of the leading seed companies in Europe, and a principal player in the Food Valley cooperative.
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• Hacked genetic code worse than a computer virus

  
  Environmental Cartoons — Authority: 104
    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 ...
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• Mix-It-Up Friday Contest!

  
  Caridad Pineiro Blog — Authority: 125
  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 ...
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• Genetic Engineering: Road to Paradise or Paradise Lost?

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 485
  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 ...
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• The Armageddon Bug

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  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 ...
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• Corporate agriculture industry plans “organic” genetically engineered crops to fight climate change

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  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 ...
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• Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering Reviews: Volume 25 by Stephen E. Harding

  
  Free Your Mind All Free Download — Authority: 164
  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 ...
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• Schools Out -- Forever

  
  Books & other thoughts — Authority: 464
  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 ...
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• Accelerating Stem cell generation

  
  Updates - SBAmin.com / Samir Amin — Authority: 117
  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 ...
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• Learning How Animals Regenerate Body Parts

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  Salk Institute scientists found that dual-purpose switches controlled many of the genes activated in the regenerating cells of a zebra fish’s tail.
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• Cloned Meat and Its Place on The Dinner Table

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  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 ...
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