Modern Biotechnology has become the greatest issue of our time. According to Lovei et al (2010), the level of attention given by the general public towards Modern Biotechnology is possibly unparalleled since the appearance of atomic bomb. Similarly, here in Ethiopia, the issue is drawing the attentions of many enormously. Recently the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences (EAS) organized public lecture...

in recent years, biotechnology has provided the possibility of creating genetically modified (gm) organisms by transferring genes from sources such as viruses, bacteria, animals, and plants into usually unrelated species. this ability to overcome insurmountable physiological barriers by exchanging genetic materials among all living organisms is a double-edged sword. on the one hand, it allows t...