Japan to label GMOs

GMOs: A solution to changed climate conditions

Standing up for GMOs.

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GMOs still rankle in Europe

World leaders meeting at the G8 summit in St Petersburg last month had hoped for at least one outcome: a boost to the flagging world trade negotiations in the current round that have been struggling since their initiation in Doha in 2001. Agreement must be reached this month if progress is to be made in this round. Issues are many and various, but in Europe one battle between EU member states a...

ELISA-based Detection of GMOs

Advances in biotechnology have enabled the development and production of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with properties such as tolerance to herbicides, resistance to insects and the addition of nutrition values. Transformation of plants is done by inserting DNA into a single cell, which is then regrown into a complete organism, the plant. DNA is the blueprint of each cell that is transc...

Risks from GMOs due to horizontal gene transfer.

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the stable transfer of genetic material from one organism to another without reproduction or human intervention. Transfer occurs by the passage of donor genetic material across cellular boundaries, followed by heritable incorporation to the genome of the recipient organism. In addition to conjugation, transformation and transduction, other diverse mechanisms of...