BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights
Daily Highlights
1. Family taking on Dupont over birth
defects
2. Russia says Kyoto delaying accusations
unfair
3. New company aims to breed super-stag
4.
Scientists find genetic markers for leprosy
5. Top ten
technologies to improve global health
6. No scientific
case to ban GM crops, report finds
7. Europe to face GM
issue this week
8. Bird flu appears to resist mainstream
drugs, WHO says
Family taking on Dupont over birth
defects
A Christchurch family fighting for compensation
from international chemical manufacturer Dupont say they are
seeing some progress at last. For more than nine years Mark
and Karen Ison have been se...
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Russia
says Kyoto delaying accusations unfair
Russia says it is
not alone in delaying approval of the Kyoto Protocol and any
suggestion it was holding up the environmental treaty aimed
at cutting greenhouse gases was unfair. Officials say
the...
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New
company aims to breed super-stag
The search for the
perfect stag is on. Claiming its the next big step up for
our deer industry, dairy herd genetic improvement firm
Livestock Improvement has established a new deer breeding
company, D...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5939
Scientists
find genetic markers for leprosy
Scientists say they have
identified two DNA patterns that might help identify people
most likely to catch leprosy, a highly infectious but
curable disease.The genetic markers could be easily
found...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5940
Top
ten technologies to improve global health
Researchers at
the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB)
conducted a study to identify 10 genomic and other
biotechnologies that have the potential to improve global
health within f...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5937
No
scientific case to ban GM crops, report finds
A further
barrier to the commercial planting of GM crops in Britain
was lifted yesterday when the Government's science review
confirmed advice that separate varieties should be
considered as individua...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5934
Europe
to face GM issue this week
European Commissioners will
this week tackle the sensitive issue of genetic modification
in Europe, for the first time in four years.The discussion
will take in a wealth of EU policies on
genetica...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5931
Bird
flu appears to resist mainstream drugs, WHO says
A few
tests have turned up a disturbing problem with the avian
influenza virus that is spreading in Asia: the strain
appears resistant to one of the two main classes of drugs
used to fight influenza v...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=5927
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Editor: Christine
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