Genetically modified crops: Fields of beaten gold
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The rise of BlackRock
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Genetically modified crops
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Greens say climate-change deniers are unscientific and dangerous. So are greens who oppose GM crops
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IN AUGUST environmentalists in the ...
Source: Biotechnology - December 5, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
GM maize, health and the Séralini affair: Smelling a rat
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The rise of BlackRock
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GM maize, health and the Séralini affair
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A study that suggested GM food may cause cancer has been retracted
GENETICALLY modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of one of the most controversial studies in recent memory, published in September 2012 by Food and Chemic...
Source: Biotechnology - December 5, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
GM maize, health and the Séralini affair: Smelling a rat
GENETICALLY modified maize causes cancer: that was the gist of a study, among the most controversial in recent memory, published in September 2012 in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology. Well, actually, it doesn’t. The journal has just retracted the article. It would be too much to say that GM foods have therefore been proven safe. But no other study has so far found significant health risks in mammals as a result of eating GM foods.The article in question was by Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen and colleagues. It describes what happened to rats fed with NK103 maize, a variety that is resistant to a ...
Source: Biotechnology - December 1, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified food: After Washington
THE campaign to stop compulsory labelling of genetically modified (GM) food in Washington broke state records for fund-raising. The campaign to force labelling must have come close to breaking state records for squandering poll leads. In September 66% of Washington's voters said they intended to vote for Initiative 522, which would have placed a conspicuous label on most foods containing GM ingredients sold in retail outlets. Final results are not yet in (and the "yes" campaign has not conceded), but the measure appears to have lost by about ten percentage points.Those who decry the influence of money in pol...
Source: Biotechnology - November 7, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified food: Warning labels for safe stuff
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Go on, bet the farm
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Genetically modified food
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One way or another, labelling of GM food may be coming to America
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BALLARD, an up-and-coming neighbourhood in north-west Seattle, was once populated by hard-dr...
Source: Biotechnology - October 31, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Synthetic biology: Set a thief…
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The gated globe
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Synthetic biology
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Genetically engineered bacteria can be used to attack other bacterial species
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Homing missiles
BIOFILMS are a problem in medicine. When bacteria gang up to fo...
Source: Biotechnology - October 10, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Lexington: Farming as rocket science
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Fight this war, not the last one
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Lexington
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Why American agriculture is different from the European variety
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BEFORE growing up to become farmers, a startling number of America’s rural ...
Source: Biotechnology - September 5, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Anti-fracking protests: A little fractious
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How India got its funk
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Anti-fracking protests
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Why even shale gas may not reignite a flagging green movement
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Source: Biotechnology - August 22, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Genetically modified trees: Into the wildwood
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Xi Jinping and the Chinese dream
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Genetically modified trees
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A GM species may soon be liberated deliberately
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The way they were
The way they were
ONCE upon a time, according to folklore, a squirrel could trave...
Source: Biotechnology - May 2, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
Biomedical scaffolding: Under construction
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When it's not so good to share
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Biomedical scaffolding
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Biomedical technology: Tiny forms of scaffolding, combining biological and synthetic elements, have a wide range of medical uses
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Source: Biotechnology - March 7, 2013 Category: Biotechnology Source Type: news
