Just before his appointment as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, the most prominent medical geneticist of our time, had his own genome scanned for disease susceptibility genes. He had decided, so he said, that the technology of personalised genomics was finally mature enough to yield meaningful results.
Continue readingJonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The fight over rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) continues, even under new ownership. After acquiring rbGH from Monsanto, Elanco (part of Eli Lilly) has stepped up efforts to convince milk …
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Book Authors: T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II Reviewed by Allison Wilson (The Bioscience Resource Project) What will it take for veggie stir-fry on rice to replace a beef burger on a …
Continue readingJonathan Latham and Allison Wilson A Monsanto/Cargill joint venture has quietly withdrawn its application for high-lysine transgenic corn after EU regulators on the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) GMO panel raised questions about its safety …
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Naomi Salmon, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK Following hot on the heels of the ‘Biotechnology Revolution’, the ‘Nanotechnology Revolution’ is now gathering steam. After twenty or so years of basic and …
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