Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
One Of The Biggest At-Home DNA Testing Companies Is Working With The FBI
February 1st, 2019Via: Buzzfeed: Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives, is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its vast genealogy database in an effort to solve violent crime cases, BuzzFeed News has learned. Federal and local law […]
East Bay Biochemist Sells ‘Gene-Editing Kit’ For The Masses
February 1st, 2019Via: CBS: “Normal scientists want to study, like, how fruit flies have sex or something, something that nobody really cares about,” said Dr. Zayner. “And what I want to study is, how do we make dragons or super-humans or something like that?” Zayner wants others to do it as well. Out of a West Oakland […]
Frozen Doom? Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Genes Found in the Arctic
January 28th, 2019Hmm. Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO Giants Know Something We Don’t: No project is more interesting at the moment than a curious project in one of the world’s most remote spots, Svalbard. Bill Gates is investing millions in a seed bank on the Barents Sea near the Arctic Ocean, some 1,100 kilometers from the […]
Gene Modified Chickens ‘Lay Medicines’
January 28th, 2019Via: BBC: Researchers at the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have genetically modified chickens to produce human proteins in their eggs. They hope the project will one day lead to lifesaving drugs that are much cheaper to make. The team modified the genomes of the chickens so their eggs contain large amounts of high quality […]
Dr Tenpenny: Infanrix Hexa Vaccine
December 27th, 2018Via: Dr. Tenpenny: The first vaccine they thoroughly tested was Infanrix Hexa – a six-in-one vaccine manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) that is *supposed* to contain the following antigens: tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis toxoids; inactivated poliomyelitis viral strains 1-2-3; and hepatitis B surface antigen. Shockingly, Corvelva found NONE of these antigens in the vaccine, meaning, that […]
China: A Dog Meets His Own Clone
December 22nd, 2018Via: Reuters: Juice is a one-foot tall canine wonder who has starred in dozens of Chinese film and television productions. As he gets older and his illustrious career peaks, his Beijing-based master has one wish for the mutt – to live on. Maybe forever. A mongrel stray adopted off the streets, the nine year-old Juice […]
The US Military Is Genetically Engineering New Life Forms To Detect Enemy Subs
December 3rd, 2018Via: Defense One: How do you detect submarines in an expanse as large as the ocean? The U.S. military hopes that common marine microorganisms might be genetically engineered into living tripwires to signal the passage of enemy subs, underwater vessels, or even divers. It’s one of many potential military applications for so-called engineered organisms, a […]
World’s First Gene-Edited Babies Created in China, Claims Scientist
November 26th, 2018Via: Guardian: A scientist in China claims to have created the world’s first genetically edited babies, in a potentially ground-breaking and controversial medical first. If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics. This kind of gene editing is banned in most countries as the technology is still experimental and DNA changes […]
DARPA Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons
October 4th, 2018You’ll love this one. Via: Newsweek: The U.S. government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been accused of trying to create a new class of biological weapons that would be delivered via virus-infected insects. The Insect Allies program was announced by DARPA in 2016. It is a research project that aims to protect the […]
MONSANTO ORDERED TO PAY $289 MILLION IN WORLD’S FIRST ROUNDUP CANCER TRIAL
August 10th, 2018Via: Reuters: A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging glyphosate […]
