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BioScience News & Advocate Daily Highlights
1. Realising
potential of biotech
2. Ban cowboy cloners, Lord May
says
3. Mad cow and madder organic agriculture
4.
Argentine soy exports up, Monsanto not amused
5. Biotech
firms urge Canada to uphold patent law
6. Breakthrough
for burn victims
Realising potential of
biotech
Just before Christmas, the Environmental Risk
Management Authority, charged with deciding on applications
to introduce hazardous substances or new organisms, approved
another biotechnology trial, The ...
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Ban
cowboy cloners, Lord May says
Maverick scientists
attempting to clone humans should be outlawed across the
world, a leading expert has said. Lord Robert May, President
of the UK Royal Society, said "cowboy cloners" caused great
...
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Mad
cow and madder organic agriculture
One cow known to be
infected with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a.k.a.
mad cow disease) has set-off such a blizzard of comment that
one hates to imagine what the response would have been had
...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5894
Argentine
soy exports up, Monsanto not amused
Booming soy exports
may be a boon to Argentina's convalescent economy, but
Monsanto has stopped selling its Roundup Ready soybean seeds
because a sharp rise in black-market sales of genetically
modifi...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5898
Biotech
firms urge Canada to uphold patent law
Representatives
for scientists and biotech firms warned Tuesday that
companies could abandon Canada unless the Supreme Court
upholds a patent for canola that has been modified to resist
a certain type...
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Breakthrough
for burn victims
Spanish scientists have discovered a
method for regenerating the skin of burn victims by using
only a stamp-size sample of their healthy skin.The daily El
Pais paper reports a sample of about two
...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5892
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