An international coalition of 44 food, environment and labour organisations is calling for urgent precautionary management of nanotechnology’s toxicity risks to human health and the environment, and its significant social challenges. The group has released …
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Farm Bill Amendment calls for NAS to Study Safety and Impacts of Cloned Meat and Animals
Press Release of the Center for Food Safety FDA APPROVAL OF CLONES STALLED BY PASSAGE OF MIKULSKI-SPECTER AMENDMENT IN FARM BILL Bill Passes by an Overwhelming Majority of 79 to 14; Coalition of Consumer, Farmer, …
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Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The case of Irina Ermakova Quite likely it surprised regular readers of Nature Biotechnology that for the September (2007) issue their favoured journal had invented a new article format specifically …
Continue readingThe Killing of the Countryside
Book Author: Graham Harvey Reviewed by Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Visitors to Britain are always being asked to admire the “unspoiled countryside” of a particular region, but landscapes are more than just photo …
Continue readingRethinking the Risks of Viral Transgenes in Plants
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Part I: Transcomplementation and its implications Today marks the publication, in the journal Molecular Plant Pathology, of the Bioscience Resource Project’s newest biosafety review: Transcomplementation and synergism: implications for virus-resistant …
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