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First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

The Impact of Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology has recently been at the center of the world’s attention as a new scientific and engineering discipline. It allows us to design and construct finely controllable metabolic and regulatory pathways, circuits, and networks, as well as ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Synthetic Biology, Microorganism, Fossil, Enzyme, Biomass

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Oxitec report 96% suppression of the dengue mosquito in Brazilian trials

Oxitec, Oxford, UK 20th May 2013Oxitec’s ground-breaking approach to pest control has again been demonstrated in a further trial carried out by Moscamed in Brazil. In this trial Moscamed achieved a 96% suppression of the dengue mosquito in the village ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013]

Entities: Dengue Fever, Suppression, Juazeiro (Brazil), Brazil, Aedes Aegypti

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Coffee Leaf Rust: It's Coming for Your Morning Joe

Oh no. Good intentions don't mean good prospects are a sure thing down on the farm.Progressive-minded café goers have long appreciated the value of an organic cup of coffee. Not only do conventional beans require synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013]

Entities: Coffee, Organic, Joe James, Specialty Coffee Association of America

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RNAs get served up in many conventional crops -- such as rice.

Some people have raised worries about whether novel double-stranded RNA molecules present in plant foods might be harmful to people. Naturally occurring plants often produce novel double-stranded RNA molecules, so we have long been exposed to this risk.One ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013]

Entities: Chromosome, RNA, DNA, Mutant, Protein

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

No silence about RNA silencing

FSANZ: Response to Heinemann et al on the regulation of GM crops and foods developed using gene silencing(May 2013)Key pointsA recent scientific article (Heinemann et al, 2013) claims that small double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) generated in GM plants as ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013]

Entities: Genetically Modified Foods, RNA, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Crops

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Synthetic wheat breakthough in wheat breeding science offers greater yields

13/05/2013: NIAB NEWS UK wheat yields could be boosted by up to 30% with the introduction of a new wheat bred from a wild grass species.The National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) in Cambridge has recreated the original rare cross between an ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 19 2013]

Entities: Wheat, yield, United Kingdom, Germplasm, Species

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Why the Precautionary Principal is a Crock. Speed Matters when it comes to Synthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccine Viruses for Rapid Response to Pandemics

VACCINESSynthetic Generation of Influenza Vaccine Viruses for Rapid Response to PandemicsAbstractDuring the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, vaccines for the virus became available in large quantities only after human infections peaked. To accelerate vaccine ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 18 2013]

Entities: Pandemic, Vaccine, Virus

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

New non-transgenic GE technology platform for genetic improvement of sunflower oilseed crop

May 13, 2013 — Scientists have developed techniques for the genetic improvement of sunflowers using a non-GMO based approach. The new technology platform can harness the plant's own genes to improve characteristics of sunflower, develop genetic traits, ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 18 2013]

Entities: Helianthus, Sunflower, Advanta Corp, Miscanthus, Renewable Energy

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Explainer: what are stem cells?

By Merlin Crossley In a paper published in Cell yesterday, scientists from the US and Thailand have, for the first time, successfully produced embryonic stem cells from human skin cells.That sounds interesting, but what are stem cells and where do ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 17 2013]

Entities: Stem Cell, Embryo, Crossley, Cancer

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Natural GMOs Part 164, Carnivorous plant has deleted most of its junk DNA

Common bladdertwort-Creative Commons Wikipedia, Jason Hollinger It's orth reading the whole thing at Ars Technica...A minimalist genomeThe bladderwort's 82 million base pair genome contains 28,500 genes, a number only slightly higher than those of ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]

Entities: DNA, Ars Technica, Utricularia, Base Pair, Protein

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

A European Environment Agency report infiltrated by 'green' ideology

Dissection on an EEA report at Marcel Kuntz' website: The European Environment Agency (EEA) released on January 23, 2013 a report entitled “Late lessons from early warnings: science, precaution, innovation” which was supposed to illustrate “ how ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]

Entities: European Environment Agency, INFILTRATION, Genetically Modified Crops, Allergen, Invention

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Apple Activists vs Scientists « Biology Fortified, Inc.

By Karl Haro von MogelAt the 2013 Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Conference, I had the unique opportunity to meet and interview Neal Carter , President of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, makers of the Arctic® Apple , and also attend a protest ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]

Entities: Biology, Organic Consumers Association, protest, Biotechnology Industry Organization

Quotes

..."When you think about organic coffee," a specialty foods trade magazine explains , "it means entire villages of people are able to rise from acute poverty to a living wage." Hence the cultural appeal of choosing to spend nearly an hour's wage on a latte...

Coffee Leaf Rust: It's Coming for Your Morning Joe [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013]

...According to Dr Chatterjee: "Over the centuries, the sunflower has been cultivated for traits such as yield. However, along the way many useful genetic variations have been lost. This new technology allows us to pinpoint key genetic information relating to various useful traits in the sunflower, including wild sunflower species. It gives us a method to quickly create variability for further breeding to enhance the quantity, quality and natural performance of the crop. In this era of increasing global food crisis and changing climatic regimes, such ability is highly desirable." The research breakthrough was part of a collaborative project between Bench Bio (India), URGV Lab INRA (France), NUI Galway Plant and AgriBiosciences...

New non-transgenic GE technology platform for genetic improvement of sunflower oilseed crop [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 18 2013]

...-Page 501, it is said: "Currently, no regulatory framework requires mandatory toxicity or allergenicity testing from the consumption (or inhalation) of GM crops or their products ". Playing on words (there would be no regulatory framework) It is insinuated that there is no risk assessment for toxicity or allergenicity associated with the consumption of GMOs, which is of course untrue .The meaning of the cited reference ( Kroghsbo 2008 ) is falsely presented: it does not show allergenic reaction in rats after consumption of rice producing the (widely marketed) Cry1Ab insecticidal protein.-Still on page 501, an equally biased argument follows: "Commonly, only 90-day (usually rat) feeding trials are conducted and conclusions of long-term risk are based on these short-term tests, despite their critical deficiencies in revealing sub-chronic and chronic effect". The references are 2 publications from Séralini/Criigen! And the reference of the following sentence is again the refuted publication by Séralini (2012)."

A European Environment Agency report infiltrated by 'green' ideology [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]

From Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2013 "Chicago Council on Global Affairs [new report] entitled “Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality.” The report states, in short, that through technology and research the agricultural community can meet the challenges of severe weather conditions and nutritionally-insufficient crops, as well as cope with dwindling arable land." LSE Enters the GMO Discussion

CGIAR actions ramp up again in response to global challenges [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 05 2013]

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The Impact of Synthetic Biology [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - 22 hours ago]
Oxitec report 96% suppression of the dengue mos... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013]
Coffee Leaf Rust: It's Coming for Your Morning Joe [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013]
Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RN... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013]
No silence about RNA silencing [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013]
Synthetic wheat breakthough in wheat breeding s... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 19 2013]
Why the Precautionary Principal is a Crock. Spe... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 18 2013]
New non-transgenic GE technology platform for g... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 18 2013]
Explainer: what are stem cells? [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 17 2013]
Natural GMOs Part 164, Carnivorous plant has de... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]
A European Environment Agency report infiltrate... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]
Apple Activists vs Scientists « Biology Fortifi... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 16 2013]
Green Revolution research saved an estimated 18... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 15 2013]
Monsanto Wins Case on Genetically Altered Soybe... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 14 2013]
Natural GMOs Part 163. The Lurker: How A Virus ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 11 2013]
Safflower that is genetically modified for incr... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 11 2013]
Sickly mosquitoes stymie malaria’s spread [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 10 2013]
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GMO Wheat and shouting “fire” in a crowded thea... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 07 2013]
Corn rootworm (Diabrotica) resistance to Bt pes... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 07 2013]
About the carcinogen acrylamide in hash browns,... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 05 2013]
CGIAR actions ramp up again in response to glob... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 05 2013]
Genetically modified trees: Into the wildwood \|... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 04 2013]
Innately safer potatoes available through genet... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 04 2013]
49 years of undue delays in the EU Approval of ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 03 2013]
Mark Tercek: A New Diet for the Planet? [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 03 2013]
Can we PLEASE stop using the term “superweed”? [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 02 2013]
Kenyan Ban on GM foods was political -- based o... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 02 2013]
Science Behind Genetically Modified Food \| TNTM... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 01 2013]
GM CROPS: PROMISE AND REALITY -- Special issue ... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 01 2013]

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The Impact of Synthetic Biology [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - 22 hours ago] Synthetic biology has recently been at the center of the world’s attention as a new scientific and engineering discipline. It allows us to design and construct finely controllable metabolic and regulatory pathways, circuits, and networks, as well as ...
Oxitec report 96% suppression of the dengue mos... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013] Oxitec, Oxford, UK 20th May 2013Oxitec’s ground-breaking approach to pest control has again been demonstrated in a further trial carried out by Moscamed in Brazil. In this trial Moscamed achieved a 96% suppression of the dengue mosquito in the village ...
Coffee Leaf Rust: It's Coming for Your Morning Joe [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 22 2013] Oh no. Good intentions don't mean good prospects are a sure thing down on the farm.Progressive-minded café goers have long appreciated the value of an organic cup of coffee. Not only do conventional beans require synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, ...
Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RN... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013] Some people have raised worries about whether novel double-stranded RNA molecules present in plant foods might be harmful to people. Naturally occurring plants often produce novel double-stranded RNA molecules, so we have long been exposed to this risk.One ...
No silence about RNA silencing [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013] FSANZ: Response to Heinemann et al on the regulation of GM crops and foods developed using gene silencing(May 2013)Key pointsA recent scientific article (Heinemann et al, 2013) claims that small double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) generated in GM plants as ...