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Science & Tech News tagged with genetic engineering

Panel Issues Paper on RbST and Milk Safety
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, rbST, milk, food safety, genetic engineering, Monsanto, Eli Lilly )

Karen
- 39 days ago - thedairysite.com
US - An independent expert panel of physicians, nutritionists, and animal scientists has found that recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST), the supplement approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for increasing milk production in lactating da
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Warning: Genetic Bioengineering of Humans and Animals
Science & Tech  (tags: humans, animals, science, research, tech, technology, technocracy, genetic engineering, experiments, world, news, society, morals, ethics, human rights, rights, environment, warfare, u.s., government, concept, design, robotics, congress, farms )

SirRobert
- 171 days ago - thefifthknight.blog.friendster.com
The world's technocracy is producing many astonishing and bizarre experimental creations behind closed doors, and rarely are we privy to just how far they have gone. Laboratories worldwide are introducing unnatural biology that can destroy ecosystems!
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Nanotechnology -- the New Threat to Food
Science & Tech  (tags: genetic engineering, nanotechnology, food, humans, technology, world, scientists )

Kemsa
- 371 days ago - informationliberation.com
Following on from genetic engineering, nanotechnology represents the latest high technology attempt to infiltrate our food supply. Senior scientists have warned that nanotechnology, the manipulation of matter at the scale of atoms and molecules....
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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.
- 577 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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Green Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets
Science & Tech  (tags: genetic engineering, cloning, pigs, China, glowing pigs, creepy )


- 648 days ago - today.msnbc.msn.com
BEIJING - A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.
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Genetic Material Under a Magnifying Glass
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, study, scientists, discovery, interesting, dna, concept, genetic engineering, future )

J.
- 648 days ago - machineslikeus.com
If this method,known as tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy can be extended to DNA,it could revolutionize the decoding of genetic information.It requires only a single strand of DNA.Sequencing could become very simple like reading a barcode at the supermarket
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Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mouse
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, technology, genetic engineering )

Karli
- 684 days ago - syracuse.com
Japanese scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.
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Scientists Make Fruit Flies Gay, Then Straight Again
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, Genetic Engineering )

Brian
- 698 days ago - foxnews.com
While several studies find homosexuality in humans and other animals is biological rather than learned, a question remains over whether it's a hard-wired phenomenon or one that can be altered.
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In Fruit Flies, Homosexuality Is Biological But Not Hard-Wired
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, future, genetic engineering, interesting, research, science, scientists, study, technology )

J.
- 699 days ago - sciencecodex.com
Researchers say that this discovery may someday make it possible to domesticate insects such as fruit flies and manipulate their sense of smell to turn them into useful pollinators rather than costly pests.
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Genetic 'Super Rice' Promises to Resist Almost Everything
Science & Tech  (tags: science, interesting, Genetic Engineering, rice )

Christoff
- 704 days ago - bangkokpost.com
Thai researchers at the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec) are developing a breed of fragrant jasmine rice that is resistant to pests and diseases, as well as to flash floods, drought and salinity
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Through Genetics, Tapping a Tree's Potential as a Source of Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: controversial, trees, Genetic Engineering, biofuels, scientists, energy, environment, world, future )

Holly
- 718 days ago - nytimes.com
It might be true that "only God can make a tree," as the poet Joyce Kilmer wrote. But genetic engineers can fundamentally redesign them.
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Lab Creates 'Supermouse'
Science & Tech  (tags: supermouse, Genetic Engineering )

Ben
- 734 days ago - blogmyway.org
A genetically modified 'supermouse' has been created that has extraordinary athletic prowess.
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Which Came First,the Chicken Genome or the Egg Genome?
Science & Tech  (tags: genetic engineering, research, science, study, technology, biology, humans )

J.
- 760 days ago - ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
This research is a significant step toward a better understanding of what genomic changes paved the way for modern humans, when these duplications occurred and what the associated costs are in terms of susceptibility to disease-causing genetic mutations.
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Genetic Hens Lay Drug-Laden Eggs
Science & Tech  (tags: China, Chickens, Genetic Engineering )

June
- 1011 days ago - news.xinhuanet.com
BEIJING, Jan. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists may someday be able to use genetically modified hens to produce drugs in the whites of their eggs to treat cancer, arthritis and other diseases such as bird flu, a report released Tuesday reveals.
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