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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 7/4
Daily Highlights
1. MAF accredits GeneScan for GMO
testing
2. LIC looks offshore
3. Kangaroo genes could
boost milk
4. Disease cuts life expectancy by half
5.
Satellites may help climate change research
6. The
arrival of the pharmaceutical human
MAF accredits GeneScan
for GMO testing
New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture and
Forestry (MAF) has accredited GeneScan USA, Inc. for
Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) testing. As part of its
Plants Biosecurity Program, MAF
accredits...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7183
LIC
looks offshore
Livestock Improvement (LIC) has Ireland
firmly in its sights as it seeks potential acquisitions.
Chief Executive Stuart Gordon said the cash-rich
co-operative wanted to expand via acquisition as
i...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7174
Kangaroo
genes could boost milk
An Australian scientist says
studying the kangaroo genome might help scientists modify
genes in cows so that they produce highly nutritious milk.
Kangaroo milk production is of special interest
to...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7179
Disease
cuts life expectancy by half
An Alzheimer's diagnosis
cuts a person's remaining life expectancy in half, says a
report that gives a new estimate of how long patients have
to live with the disease. The study of 521 people
with...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7175
Satellites
may help climate change research
Satellites using a new
technology tested high above the Amazon rainforest can
accurately tell scientists about the effects of drought on
the ground, according to a new report.This new application
...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7178
The
arrival of the pharmaceutical human
In the popular
imagination, the technologically altered human being is a
cross between RoboCop and the Borg, an essay in the New York
Times says.The hardware that would make such a mating of
human...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7172
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Editor: Christine
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