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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 11/2
Daily Highlights
1. Crop biotechnology could save
millions
2. Let them eat precaution
3. Italy moves to
reign-in assisted reproduction
4. Drs warn NZ to prepare
for bird flu
5. Drug giant renews contract with Auckland
University
6. High Court upholds corngate decision
Crop biotechnology could save millions
Today, most
people around the world have access to a greater variety of
nutritious and affordable foods than ever before, thanks
mainly to developments in agricultural science and
technology.C. S....
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Let
them eat precaution
On cue, at last fall's World Trade
Organization meeting in Cancun, self anointed "Green"
activists showed up to protest the use of gene modification
(G.M.) technology in agriculture.Jon Entine
wri...
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Italy
moves to reign-in assisted reproduction
Italy's
parliament on Tuesday approved a contentious assisted
reproduction law aimed at reining in the unregulated world
of fertility medicine, but doctors said it puts mothers and
children at risk. ...
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Drs
warn NZ to prepare for bird flu
Two eminent University of
Otago graduates have warned New Zealand must ready itself
for the bird flu by stockpiling vaccines for the deadly
disease. Robert Webster and Richard Webby - who now
he...
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Drug
giant renews contract with Auckland University
A $4
million research contract has been granted to Auckland
University's faculty of medical and health sciences by
United States pharmaceutical company Pfizer. The 10-year
contract is a renewal of...
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High
Court upholds corngate decision
Prime Minister Helen
Clark has defeated a TV3 High Court appeal against a
Broadcasting Standards Authority ruling that the channel's
2002 election "Corngate" special was unfair and biased. In a
...
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