Banking on greener legislation

Greener light on GM crops

A new study of a number of specific GM crops over several years in rotation with conventional crops has found no evidence that they may be more harmful to the environment, in terms of the reservoir of weed seeds important for much wildlife, than conventional varieties alone. The findings of the Botanical and Rotational Implications of Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerance (Bright) project in...

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Forensic Dna Banking Legislation in Developing Countries: Privacy and Confidentiality Concerns regarding a Draft from Turkish Legislation.

This paper presents and analyses, in terms of privacy and confidentiality, the Turkish Draft Law on National DNA Database prepared in 2004, and concerning the use of DNA analysis for forensic objectives and identity verification in Turkey. After a short introduction including related concepts, we evaluate the draft law and provide articles about confidentiality. The evaluation reminded us of so...

Greener Solvent-Free Reactions on ZnO

Routes to greener plastics

How to hide a dimension from view Compacted dimensions are essential ingredients of advanced string theories; the extra dimensions used to describe the world are hidden from view, or compacted. Pendry et al. used concepts of transformation optics, in which metamaterials are designed to produce specific optical properties, to show theoretically that compacted dimensions could be possible in plas...