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Science & Tech News tagged with biotechnology

Will Our Views on Gm Food Be 'Modified?' // Current
Science & Tech  (tags: GM, biotechnology, brainwashing, research, food safety, deception )

Karen
- 18 days ago - current.com
Stand by for yet another attempt to persuade a resistant British public to consume genetically modified food. The Food Standards Agency - the same quango that constantly condemns the organic produce that people really do want - is about to organise, at mi
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Open Letter to the UN re "The Development of Nanobiotechnology & Nanorobot Hardware for Medical Applications"
Science & Tech  (tags: Biotechnology, Medical Nanotechnology & robotics, United Nations, Ethical Guidelines, Nanoarchitecture.net, Adriano Cavalcanti, Australia )

Feisty
- 38 days ago - cannxs.org
Adriano Cavalcanti of Australia's Center for Automation in Nanobiotech CANNXS Foundation Project wrote an open letter to the UN General Assembly, indicating that nanotechnology should be used for peaceful purposes based on ethical practices.
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Dandelion Rubber? Researchers Make Russian Dandelion Suitable For Large-Scale Rubber Production
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, GeneticEngineering, dandelions, biotechnology, GMO )

Karen
- 81 days ago - sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) -- Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber production.
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Swine Flu Genes To Be Inserted In Corn, Making Vaccine Foods For Hogs & Humans
Science & Tech  (tags: GeneticEngineering, medicine, NewTechnology, tech, technology, biotechnology, transgenic, frankenfoods )

Karen
- 169 days ago - treehugger.com
Iowa State University researchers are reported to be planning experimental insertion of 'swine flu vaccines' into the genetic makeup of corn. The idea is to allow pigs and humans to get a flu vaccination "simply by eating corn or corn products."...
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Early Exposure to Common Weed Killer Impairs Amphibian Development
Science & Tech  (tags: research, environment, frogs, reptiles, developmental biology, biotechnology, atrazine, caspase-3, exposure, herbicide, kidney, morphogenesis, organ, tadpoles )

J.
- 594 days ago - yubanet.com
When exposed to the widely used herbicide atrazine in their early stages of life the common weed killer,once thought to be harmless to animals,disrupts growth of vital organs in amphibians during multiple growth periods.
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How Fast You'Ll Age Is Written in the Bones, Tel Aviv University Research Finds
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, scientists, technology, news, humans, health, interesting, genetic engineering, Biotechnology )

J.
- 602 days ago - aftau.org
Researchers developed a biological marker that represents the age of a body's bones.It reveals that the speed of physical aging is influenced by genetics.Results of this study will join other tools used by scientists who research aging & ways to fight it.
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Spit Tests May Soon Replace Many Blood Tests Thanks to Proteomics
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, humans, health, study, treatment, Biomedical, Biotechnology, Viruses, technology )

J.
- 617 days ago - urmc.rochester.edu
One day soon patients may spit in a cup,instead of bracing for a needle prick,when being tested for cancer,heart disease or diabetes. Replacing blood draws with saliva tests promises to make disease diagnosis less invasive and costly.
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Printing Organs on Demand / How to Print Out a Blood Vessel
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, health, medicine, biotechnology, engineering, innovation, medicine, physics, self assembling, technology )

J.
- 617 days ago - blogs.zdnet.com
The potential now exists to develop tissue engineered constructs for tissue repair and organ replacement.A tissue-engineering group has succeeded in creating functional blood vessels & cardiac tissue,using a 'printer ' that dispenses cells instead of ink.
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As DNA Research Advances, Science Plays God Ever More
Science & Tech  (tags: DNA, Biotechnology, Synthetic-technology, LIFE, GOD, CREATION )


- 701 days ago - seattletimes.nwsource.com
Now researchers are poised to cross a dramatic barrier: the creation of life forms driven by completely artificial DNA.
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Investigation at HLS, This Is 'Medical Research'   video
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, vivisection, research, lab, biotechnology )

Alf
- 761 days ago - youtube.com
To anyone out there who still thinks animal experimentation is vital or even scientific you need to see this. It is neither. This is what is really going on...and guess what, even if you don't like it YOUR taxes are paying for it!!
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Worm Study Sheds Light on Human Aging, Inherited Diseases
Science & Tech  (tags: Biology, Healthy Aging, Human Biology, Genes, Biotechnology, Biochemistry Research )

J.
- 793 days ago - physorg.com
Boulder,CO--The findings could one day contribute to the creation of gene therapies to reverse or lessen the effects of mitochondrial diseases, the largest family of human genetic diseases.
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Simulating Kernel Production Influences Maize Model Qccuracy
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, environment, discovery, climate, biotechnology, crops, soil, pollination, agronomy, crop science )

J.
- 804 days ago - newswise.com
The Crop Environment Resource Synthesis (CERES)- Maize model is used worldwide to predict maize yield each growing season. The findings may help to improve yield predictions throughout the world.They're also predicting pollen movements from GM crops.
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