Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
Bill Gates Just Described His Biggest Fear — And It Could Kill 330 Million People In Less Than A Year
May 28th, 2015Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious Coalition of Leading Scientists Claim H5N1 Ferret Experiments Could Lead to Pandemic H5N1 Bird Flu Needs Just 5 Mutations to Spread Easily in People Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken […]
Fermenting Morphine with Genetically Modified Yeasts
May 19th, 2015Laudanum Pale Ale? Via: Radio New Zealand: Scientists have figured out how to brew morphine using the same kit used to make beer at home. They have genetically modified yeast to perform the complicated chemistry needed to convert sugar to morphine. The findings, published in Nature Chemical Biology, raise promise for medicine but also concerns […]
Chipotle Removes All GMO Ingredients From Its Menu
April 28th, 2015Via: Guardian: Chipotle will no longer use genetically modified food in its stores, the company announced on Monday. The fast-growing Mexican restaurant chain will be the first US company to use only non-GM ingredients. “There is a lot of debate about genetically modified foods,” Steve Ells, the founder, chairman and co-CEO of Chipotle, said. “Though […]
Chinese Scientists Admitted to Tweaking Genes of Human Embryos for First Time
April 23rd, 2015Via: Business Insider: A recent biotech discovery — one that has been called the biggest biotech discovery of the century — showed how scientists might be able to modify a human genome when that genome was still just in an embryo. This could change not only the genetic material of a person, but could also […]
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public by Steven M. Druker
March 9th, 2015Via: Amazon: This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world’s food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, […]
Millions of GMO Insects Could be Set Loose in Florida Keys
February 8th, 2015Via: AP: Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases. Never before have insects with modified DNA come so close to being set loose in a residential U.S. neighborhood. “This is essentially using a mosquito as […]
Britain: Three-Person Babies
February 4th, 2015Via: BBC: MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in a historic move. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the Commons, 382 MPs […]
Scientists Attempt to Create Kill Switch for Genetically Modified Bacteria
January 24th, 2015Pay close attention to the use of unlikely and undetectably small escape rate in the piece below. Wow. Of all the places to encounter weaseleze… I think seeing it in the one about the GMO kill switch has to take the cake. Via: Discovery: As genetically-modified microbes take on ever more tasks – from creating […]
Controversial DNA Startup Wants to Let Customers Create Creatures
January 4th, 2015Not The Onion! Via: San Francisco Chronicle: In Austen Heinz’s vision of the future, customers tinker with the genetic codes of plants and animals and even design new creatures on a computer. Then his startup, Cambrian Genomics, prints that DNA quickly, accurately and cheaply. “Anyone in the world that has a few dollars can make […]
U.S.D.A. Approves Genetically Modified Potato
November 8th, 2014Via: New York Times: A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday. The potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing […]
