Archive for the 'Genetic Engineering' Category
Pentagon Looks to Breed Immortal ‘Synthetic Organisms,’ Molecular Kill-Switch Included
February 6th, 2010Via: Wired:
The Pentagon’s mad science arm may have come up with its most radical project yet. Darpa is looking to re-write the laws of evolution to the military’s advantage, creating “synthetic organisms” that can live forever — or can be killed with the flick of a molecular switch.
As part of its budget for the next [...]
States Storing Newborns’ DNA Without Parental Consent
February 5th, 2010Via: CNN:
When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
While grateful to have the information — Isabel received further testing and she doesn’t have [...]
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast
February 1st, 2010Via: Scientific American:
Genetic engineering is coming to the forests.
While the practice of splicing foreign DNA into food crops has become common in corn and soy, few companies or researchers have dared to apply genetic engineering to plants that provide an essential strut of the U.S. economy, trees.
But that will soon change. Two industry giants, International [...]
Monsanto’s GM Corn Damages Organs: A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
January 13th, 2010Via: International Journal of Biological Sciences:
We present for the first time a comparative analysis of blood and organ system data from trials with rats fed three main commercialized genetically modified (GM) maize (NK 603, MON 810, MON 863), which are present in food and feed in the world. NK 603 has been modified to be [...]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN:
When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit.
Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children.
Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law mandates that before [...]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure.
Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post
Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies?
I’d guess that the answer to that question would be even more ridiculous [...]
Congressional Statements Ghostwritten by Genentech Lobbyists
November 15th, 2009Via: New York Times:
In the official record of the historic House debate on overhauling health care, the speeches of many lawmakers echo with similarities. Often, that was no accident.
Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
E-mail [...]
The Frankenfood Industry’s Strong Arm Tactics with Researchers
October 13th, 2009Via: GM Watch:
The increasingly fractious relationship between public sector researchers and the biotech seed industry has come into the spotlight in recent months. In July, several leading seed companies met with a group of entomologists, who earlier in the year had lodged a public complaint with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over restricted access [...]
Why are Monsanto Insiders Now Appointed to Protect Your Food Safety?
October 12th, 2009Via: Mercola:
The New Secretary of Agriculture is a Fan of Factory Farms, GM Crops and More
Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is now the Secretary of Agriculture, an appointment that took place despite massive public outcry. What was needed for an effective Secretary of Agriculture was someone who would develop and implement [...]
FrankenpHood Seeds Will Cost Up to 42% More
August 19th, 2009Via: Bloomberg:
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed maker, plans to charge as much as 42 percent more for new genetically modified seeds next year than older offerings because they increase farmers’ output.
Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybeans will cost farmers an average of $74 an acre in 2010, and original Roundup Ready soybeans will cost $52 [...]
