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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 29/3
Daily Highlights
1. AgResearch CEO defines goals
2.
Antidepressants not cause of suicide, Dr says
3. Land
management solutions lie in soil
4. GM bans empty
populism
5. The difference between embracing progress &
fearing it
6. GM fish help explain motor neurone
disease
AgResearch CEO defines goals
New AgResearch
chief executive Dr Andy West says his top priority when he
starts work at Ruakura on May 3 will be to "make farmers
richer". West, who led the officials team which created the
crown...
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Antidepressants
not cause of suicide, Dr says
They are the drugs designed
to lift the dark cloud of depression, and for some people
they work incredibly well. But overseas studies suggest that
for some children and young people the reverse
is...
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Land
management solutions lie in soil
The economy of the
central North Island was transformed in the 1930s when
scientists recognised and solved the problem of cobalt
deficiency for millions of hectares of our now productive
volcanic soil...
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GM
bans empty populism
Yesterday's announcement by West
Australian Premier Geoff Gallop that his state would be
"legally declared a GM-free area" in order to preserve its
"clean and green" status was a piece of empty
populi...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7044
The
difference between embracing progress & fearing it
They
say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, Dean Kleckner
writes.The same might be said of "contamination," the latest
buzzword among the enemies of biotechnology. It's in the eye
of the b...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7041
GM
fish help explain motor neurone disease
Thousands of
stripey aquarium fish are helping Australian researchers
learn more about a degenerative disease of the human nervous
system.The zebra fish have been genetically modified to
carry a h...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7054
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