Consumer attitudes to GM changing, survey finds
Public support for genetic modification in medicine has risen significantly over the past two years, an AgResearch
survey has found.Speaking at the Impacts of Emerging Biotechnologies Symposium, A... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4716
MaDGE members strip in Parliament
Purple-bra-wearing anti-GE protesters disrupted Parliament this afternoon after they stripped off their tops in front of
MPs.About a dozen women from the Mothers Against Genetic Engineering pressu... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4715
Society held back by technophobes
The healthy development of human society is being held back by technophobes and technophiles according to Baroness Susan
Greenfield, speaking this morning at the Australian Science Olympiads Media Bre... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4714
Genetic test expected to generate revenue soon
Genomics and genetics researcher Genetic Technologies Ltd (GTG) has announced that it expects to record its first
revenues from a new genetic test for superior athletic performance in the coming month... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4712
Scientist defends GM possum control
Work by New Zealand scientists on genetically engineering (GE) a tiny worm to sterilise pest possums has raised
questions over whether it poses a risk to the species in its native habitat across the T... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4711
Court finds no grounds for Italian GM crop ban
The European Court of Justice said yesterday it could not support an Italian decree to temporarily ban a GM maize
variety used in animal feed from their territory on the suspicion that it was not subs... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4709
Scientist says embracing GM to benefit Ghana
As the transatlantic dispute over the acceptability of Genetically Modified (GM) organisms and foods to reduce poverty
and hunger in the world hots up, Ghana is torn between siding with the United Sta... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4708
GM bacteria may offer HIV protection
New research involving a genetically engineered bacteria has raised hope of protecting women against HIV infection.
Researchers from Stanford University in the United States say laboratory tests s... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4707
NOOM Bill returns to Parliament today
The New Organisms and Other Matters Bill will undergo its second reading debate in Parliament today, as the third item
on the day’s agenda.Following the debate Parliament will sit as the committee... More... http://www.lifesciencesnetwork.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=4704