According to the CBC in a recent article entitled Technology needed to feed world in 2050: scientists, we may need artificial meat, genetic engineering and nanotechnology to feed the world, due to an increased demand in meat, milk and eggs and dwindling agricultural resources due to climate change and the increased demand for biofuel, crops [...]
New Biology offers a free ebook on the basics of Stem Cell Research, with illustrations: Now with full-color photographs and line illustrations, Stem Cell Research, Revised Edition discusses the different types of stem cells, how they are studied in the laboratory, and the diseases that may be treated with these cells. This edition has been [...]
Geron Pharmaceuticals received the approval almost a year after they’d made the request. This will be the first test using humans and embryonic stem cells. They are hoping, by using the undifferentiated stem cells to repair the spinal chord and restore motor function. Geron will recruit about 10 people who have no motor function in [...]
Ashar Tomorrow, I’ll be dead. That’s what ran through my mind over and over the day I escaped from GenOrg. It’s a strange feeling to consider your own death, especially when you don’t have the frame of reference to understand it. I understood dead. A body taken to the Room, a voice stopped. But—tomorrow? The [...]
My current work in progress, Entropy, has for basis the consequences of monoculture. In my novel, two major agribusinesses own 100% of the seeds for the major food crops, wheat, maize (corn) and soy. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Ten years ago, farmers in North America could choose between over three hundred [...]
On 12 March 2010, it was exactly a year since President Obama has reversed the limits imposed on stem cell research by the Bush Administration for eight years. Since then, 43 lines of stem cells have been approved for research. Although the research had been curtailed, the US National Academy of Science had developed guidelines [...]
From the Moscow Times: “The State Duma has renewed a temporary ban on human cloning in Russia, Interfax reported Wednesday. The bill, approved in a third and final reading Wednesday, sets a ban on cloning until a federal law can be enacted to regulate the cloning of humans, the report said. The bill allows the [...]
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