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1. Milking goats for malaria
vaccine
2. UK to approve commercial GM planting soon,
sources say
3. EU economy suffers from GM moratorium,
study finds
4. Blis trials show promise
5. Skepticism
over cloned embryo claims
6. China approves first SARS
vaccine
7. Bioethics report makes no recommendations,
yet
8. Modern food scares vs reality
Milking goats
for malaria vaccine
A herd of transgenic goats in
Massachusetts could save millions of lives, claim the
biotechnologists who developed them. Their milk contains the
key ingredient of a malaria vaccine, say the
resear...
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UK
to approve commercial GM planting soon, sources say
The
UK Government will next month approve the commercial growing
of genetically modified (GM) crops in Britain for the first
time, inside sources say. But Ministers will impose strict
conditi...
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EU
economy suffers from GM moratorium, study finds
A study
of the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology
(VIB) in Belgium argues that Europe has missed out
economically through the ban on genetically modified (GM)
crops.Matty Demont ...
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Blis
trials show promise
Dunedin-based biotechnology company
Blis Technologies has announced an initial anti-bad breath
trial of its K12 Throat Guard product has been successful.
The product replaces depleted or
unhealthy...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5861
Skepticism
over cloned embryo claims
Scientists are sceptical about
news that a woman is pregnant with a cloned human embryo and
are challenging the maverick fertility expert to prove it.
Dr Panos Zavos, who is based in the U.S.,
sai...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5864
China
approves first SARS vaccine
Chinese authorities have
approved the world's first anti-SARS vaccine for clinical
testing, state media reported. Following the State Food and
Drug Administration's approval of the vaccine,
testin...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5863
Bioethics
report makes no recommendations, yet
The President's
Council on Bioethics released its first report on stem cell
research at a meeting last week. But unlike one of its
noteworthy predecessors, the new report, Monitoring Stem
Cell Researc...
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Modern
food scares vs reality
Modern food scares tend to have
very little to do with real adverse effects upon human
health, Jennie Bristow writes in Spiked. The contradictory
character of most modern food scares
indic...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5858
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