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What is Genetic Engineering? - An elementary introduction for the layman
DNA of the recipient organism. DNA of the recipient before insertion: There is no way to ... To ensure that the inserted gene is not rejected by the recipient organism (vectors) To ensure that the inserted gene is active (promoters ... of the orderly sequence of genetic codes of the recipient, developed through millions of years. In addition, powerful artificial ...
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Misleading arguments commonly used by biotech advocates
Genes are very powerful. So one "little gene" added to a recipient organism may cause important changes and disturbances, even lethal ones in the worst case. Second: The ... foods should be withdrawn from the market (see Open letter to governments [EL]). No GE-organism approved so far has been investigated for environmental consequences in a sufficiently careful way to ...
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The “gene gun” shoots the gene into the recipient plant or animal. The “viral vector” infects it with the foreign ... they currently have no control over where it lands in the recipient organism’s genome–and the position can make a lot of ... toxicity or altered nutritional value from changing the way an organism functions: Genetic engineering can change the metabolism of a plant ...
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GeneWatch UK - Techniques for Genetically Modifying Plants - A basic guide on how plants are genetically modified.
The intention is to either (most commonly) introduce a new trait into the recipient organism, such as tolerance to a chemical herbicide or resistance to insect attack, or to modify the activity of the organism's own genes, to ...
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EIA Kid's Page Energy News
Microbiologists and biochemists studying vents along the volcanically active Pacific Ridge have found a new organism that seems to live off a light source other than the sun. The bacterium, ... reasons for optimism. William Clark, an authority on environmental issues at Harvard University and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, pointed to evidence that man is accomplishing more with ...
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GM Probiotic Bacteria in Gene Therapy
GM Probiotic Bacteria in Gene Therapy HOME BIOTECHNOLOGY SCIENCE of the ORGANISM SCIENCE in SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS Search the ISIS website ISIS members area log in Views and ... rapidly lose viability. But lysates of the cells are nevertheless capable of transforming (genetically modifying) recipient cells [7], a kind of sex after death. Mutant thymine-minus bacteria have been prepared ...
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Funky Things with Poi
Kipahulu is a GMO-free zone. GMO means genetically modified organism. She urges people to buy from local family farms and to frequent farmers' markets. "The ... is a multiple winner of the Lowell Thomas travel journalism awards. She is also a recipient of the Pushcart Prize for literature. Original article URL: http://spiritofaloha.com/features/0906/facing ...
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Maryland Sea Grant : Videos: Book Store & Videos: The Pfiesteria Files
Reports & Fact Sheets Reprints Newsletters Video Journal Clothing & Cups The Pfiesteria Files EMMY AWARD RECIPIENT The award, presented for long-form documentary, was presented by the Capital Region of ... dinoflagellate caused memory loss and psychological damage among the scientists who first discovered the organism. The Pfiesteria Files takes us into the North Carolina labs where researchers became ...
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This institutionalization of substantive values, this belief that a planned process of treatment ultimately gives results desired by the recipient ...
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Say No To GMOs! - February 2007c
For example, trout can tolerate cold water ... now create DNA on demand, freely combining the best or worst characteristics of any known organism and inventing completely new life forms. This is all very exciting for scientists and their ...
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