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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 15/4
Daily Highlights
1. Art meets science in wine
research
2. New light on HRT
3. Science based system
means real choice for Europe
4. Syngenta receives fifth
patent for Bt corn
5. GM crops have much to offer,
Professor says
6. Marine genetics could boost food
supply
Art meets science in wine research
The art of
making a sauvignon blanc that tastes and smells just right
is about to become a science. The Government's science
funding agency, the Foundation for Research, Science and
Technology, ha...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7268
New
light on HRT
Two studies of hormone replacement therapy,
both halted because of adverse results, show the drugs do
not prevent heart disease and other chronic conditions. But
health experts said the therapy ap...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7267
Science
based system means real choice for Europe
On April 18th
2004, the most comprehensive labelling and traceability
system for GM products in the world comes into effect. These
rules were established by the EU Commission, the Parliament
and the C...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7263
Syngenta
receives fifth patent for Bt corn
The United States
Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, DC has issued US
Patent No. 6,720,488. This patent is the fifth in a series
of transgenic patents issued to Syngenta in the field
of...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7262
GM
crops have much to offer, Professor says
Professor John
Hillman, the director of the Scottish Crop Research
Institute, believes that conventional agriculture has done a
good job of feeding most of the world's population. Given
the ch...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7260
Marine
genetics could boost food supply
A professor, whose past
work includes crossbreeding oysters, is hoping to boost fish
populations in the name of world hunger. In search of a way
to create an unlimited food supply led Dennis
H...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7258
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