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A big hat tip to Pam Ronald for finding this. The Weigel Lab at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, which studies the molecular biology of plants and animals, has put together what might be one of the best lab group videos I’ve seen. It’s time to dance it up Weigel Style! AAAAAAAAA thaliana!
Some of our readers have heard about the many known naturally-occurring Natural GMOs out there, such as Pea Aphids. Nature, it appears is a lot more creative with the different forms of life that evolve than people might think. Well, three interesting creatures make an appearance on this episode of the SciShow – animals that…
By Sunanda Creagh, Reposted from The Conversation Researchers hoping to produce modified chickens hatched with in-built resistance to bird flu will conduct trials on live hens later this year, an Australian scientist said on Tuesday. CSIRO research scientist, Dr Tim Doran, has been using a technique called gene silencing to “switch off” virus genes that…
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[American business interests that are behind the current push for GM food labelling in California play a major part in this Australian story, reposted from The Conversation website.] By Richard Roush, University of Melbourne and David Tribe, University of Melbourne Australia has one of the more rigorous food labelling systems in the world for…
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The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) promotes scientific collaboration that advances public health and well-being. Their International Food Biotechnology Committee (IFBiC) hosted a workshop on plant composition last month in Washington, DC. They recorded the talks and posted them for all to view (ILSI’s YouTube channel has a lot of other great material, too). The talks…
Last October, as Vice President of the UW-Madison Plant Science Graduate Student Council, (PSGSC), I helped put together our first entirely student-run day-long symposium, Modern Tools for Plant Genetic Improvement. It was a fantastic event with six speakers covering topics from epigenetics, to genomic research, and how to apply these sciences to breeding complex traits…
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A re-post of an article by Ashley Ng, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini caused quite a stir last week when he claimed he’d shown cancer in rats increased when they were fed genetically modified corn and/or water spiked with the herbicide Roundup. The paper, which seven of his colleagues co-authored,…
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