Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A key aspect of transgenic agriculture is control of gene flow. Gene flow is important for many reasons including: 1) protecting intellectual property from unwanted incursions into farmers’ fields (and …
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Let the World Learn From Our Experience with GMOs
E. Ann Clark, University of Guelph, Canada E. Ann Clark is an Associate Professor in the department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. She wrote this piece in response to a …
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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 …
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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 …
Continue readingThe Excommunication of a Heretic
by Roland Fischer The article below is translated from an original article in the Swiss German-language newspaper WOZ An unusual article was published in the September printed edition of the science magazine “Nature Biotechnology”. The …
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