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Are GMOs bad? Science says they’re safe
The scientific consensus says GMOs are safe but public opinion remains polarized.
Genetically modified apples don’t turn brown when sliced or bruised
The US government approved a genetically modified apple that doesn't turn brown when bruised or sliced. While most genetic alterations ...
GMOs on a leash: scientists engineer bacteria that can’t survive in the wild uncontrolled
Two teams of researchers from the US recoded the genome of the E. coli bacteria such that it dies when ...
Tobacco plants borrowing bacteria genes achieve more efficient photosynthesis
This plant may look like an ordinary tobacco plant, but on the inside it was engineered to express bacteria proteins ...
The Family Tree of Beer: A Team of Geneticists is creating the Beer Yeast Genome Project
In a lab in San Diego, Troels Prahl, a brewer and microbiologist at the Southern California yeast distributor White Labs sits at ...
Yeast chromosome engineered from scratch: creating cretures in a lab
In a huge breakthrough in synthetic biology, scientists at Johns Hopkins University have engineered from scratch a yeast chromosome. This ...
Monsanto pulls GMO crops out of Europe, for now at least
(c) PETE RICHES/DEMOTIX/CORBIS Biotech giant, Monsanto, has been met with a wave of furious protests during the past year in ...
