In a study published today in Biology Letters1, two zoologists, Michael Dillon, now at the University of Wyoming in Laramie,
GM CROPS detected Small amounts of genetically modified (GM CROPS are increasingly being detected in traded food and feed
which low levels of GM CROPS were detected in supposedly non-GM CROPS. Most cases occurred in the latter years of the survey between 2009 and 2012,
The FAO attributes the rise to increased global production of GM CROPS and better detection technology.
A 12 march report by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology says that since 2000
one run by POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels and the other by Dupont). The industry has promised long that this second-generation biofuel will cut greenhouse-gas emissions,
reduce US reliance on imported oil and boost rural economies. Yet just as the fuel is on the cusp of making it big,
Tapping the storehouse of biomass left after the harvest is much less controversial. Ethanol made from corn stover produces at least 60%less greenhouse-gas emissions than petrol,
The process requires the biomass to be ground up and pretreated with acids. A cocktail of enzymes must then be applied to chop up the tough biological polymers inside all before the yeast is added to the resulting sugars.
Hence the scale of Abengoa s processing facility, much larger and more expensive than any corn-ethanol plant.
Cellulosic Biofuels Industry Progress report 2012-2013 (AEC, 2012) Cellulosic-ethanol producers have several options to increase their market.
or six years ago to close to $2 today, says Thomas Foust, director of the National Bioenergy Center, part of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.
These thermochemical methods can produce either a crude bio-oil or a stream of carbon monoxide and hydrogen known as syngas.
Last year, an energy-department project to supply the US NAVY with advanced biofuels provided funding for four facilities that will all use thermochemical methods to make drop in fuels.
and INEOS Bio near Vero Beach, Florida (see Power plants).(Both plants are currently idle, pending upgrades.
But Standlee says that biology can still compete, by tackling ever-cheaper feedstocks. His company is betting that a new generation of enzymes can turn municipal waste into ethanol,
DNA swap The United kingdom could become the first country to legalize mitochondrial replacement a reproductive technology that produces offspring with three genetic parents.
The technique could prevent children from inheriting diseases that affect mitochondria, the cell s energy producers, by transplanting nuclear genetic material to a donor cell with healthy mitochondria.
s bioethics law. But Hwang will serve jail time only if he breaks laws during a two-year probation period.
Their genetic viability is NOT in peril. Opal Wolf-For those who have spread and believed the lies about wolves attacking people
As a wildlife biologist working to ensure wolves remain on the landscape I find it disheartening
If you knew anything at all about wolf biology or trapping the fact that they caught this wolf in the same campground within 3 days of the attack would provide ample evidence to proceed
and go out in the field with a biologist. Talk to them about what they do
I too have background in wildlife biology yet find it extremely hard not to scream at my computer
if wolf biologists and wildlife officials construct a documentary aired on PBS Animal Planet Discovery
while any male offspring will carry the deadly gene just as their fathers did. Over time this should bring down local olive fruit fly population dramatically.
The added genes are similar to the ones that appear in Oxitec's mosquitos which the company has tested in Brazil bringing down one town's dengue-fever-carrying mosquito population by 96 percent.
The modified olive fruit flies may have other unwanted genetic traits such as pesticide resistance that they'll spread among wild flies Wallace said.
The group is concerned also about GM maggots living for some time in olives before their genes kill them off.
The deadly genes should only work in flies unlike pesticides which affect many insect species including ones people may be interested in protecting such as pollinators o
In addition this the era of neuroscience and molecular genetics. Few people pay attention to behavioral observation he wrote.
In a new program the U s. Forest Service is fueling a biomass power plant in Colorado with trees killed by a pest called the mountain pine beetle Greenwire reports.
Supporters say the beetle trees-to-biomass program is environmentally friendly but not all groups agree.
Biomass power plants do use a renewable fuel but nevertheless contribute to global warming because they put greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Some environmental groups such as the council are worried also about the Forest Service encouraging logging for biomass plants.
Now some bacteria or virus that infect humans on earth take a long time to actually show up
or virus the strong ability to spread across humanity. Well now you can imagine where this gone.
/Brazilian Doctor Arrested For Using Silicone Fingers To Fool Fingerprint-Based Biometric Check-Inour keyless
Thaune Nunes Ferreira 29 was arrested on Sunday for using prosthetic fingers to fool the biometric employee attendance device used at the hospital where she works near Sao paulo.
Police said she had six silicone fingers with her at the time of her arrest three of which have already been identified as bearing the fingerprints of co-workers. http://disinfo. com/2013/03/brazilian-doctor-arrested-for-using-silicone-fingers-to-fool-fingerprint-based-biometric-check in/Mr
A new study found that a single gene called callee oocyan is responsible for the odd coloration of these blue chicken eggs.
Turns out that these chickens have a high incidence of a particular retrovirus called EAV-HP. Retroviruses are a type of virus that integrates its own genetic data into the host in an unusual order.
This EAV-HP retrovirus is responsible for inserting that weird gene the one that turns the chicken eggs blue.
via Virology Blog I'm not sure I go for this. There are many araucanas or more properly americanas in backyard flocks.
If this is a virus acquired trait why hasn't it been passed to other chicken breeds?
The virus itself may not be there anymore -but the changed genes simply have been passed down from bird to bird-essentially creating a new breed.
Most peopel wouldnt believe how much humans have been mutated and changed by viral dna over 100-s of thousands of years.
IT doesnt have to be bones rather minor alterations picked up over long periodes of time. http://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2010/01/100107103621. htmabout eight percent of human genetic material
comes from a virus and not from our ancestors according to researchers in Japan and the U s. Wilkev Fenton Blues were developed from Legbars
Therefore their blue egg gene originated in South america not England d
#Pollinating Bees Are The Pesticide Deliverymen Of The Futurehere's another reason to pay attention to dwindling bee populations:
or virus that will then be delivered in small amounts to the plants they already pollinate.
That cosmic radiation blasting the Earth's surface could cause genetic mutations and cancers. Yet when palaeontologists scoured the fossil records looking for signs of mass extinctions
Mutation breeding is considered not genetic engineering which puts genes from one species into another species. Genetic engineering can be a quick
International atomic energy agency nuclear radiated biological mutant seed enhancement amplified evolutionary adapation production against wheat rust desease for Kenyan farmers.
To the point that mutation based on radiation is accepted as a biological dating system. The plant is not radioactive it s only accelerated evolution with human selection.
Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4+CD25+cells Masateru Uchiyama Xiangyuan Jin
Dung beetles Use the Milky way for Orientation Marie Dacke Emily Baird Marcus Byrne Clarke H. Scholtz Eric J. Warrant Current Biology epub January 24 2013.
discovering that the biochemical process by which onions make people cry is complicated even more than scientists previously realized.
Plant Biochemistry: An Onion Enzyme that Makes the Eyes Water S. Imai N. Tsuge M. Tomotake Y. Nagatome H. Sawada T. Nagata and H. Kumagai Nature vol
In addition the weird biology of bacteria means that they are able to easily share genes with one another further spreading antibiotic resistance.
<i>-and therefore imprinting the urge to eat grease in our genes -<i>.Here's a thought.
and that chemistry is one mean bitch who proved biology that without knowledge and common sense you'll quickly find yourself out of the gene pool:
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind. Albert Einsteinas in the first comment use Peanut oil it is not flammable in fact it will put out the propane burner
Using animals as a method of seed dispersal is actually a useful form of mutualism âÂ#Âthe plants get to spread their genes
Let's concentrate on saving biodiversity and not replacing it with technological dead end solutions!!!jesus what a stupid fucking crock of shit.
The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark Texas released a statement for its members on August 15 the day after the Tarrant County Public health Department informed the church that one of its missionaries who traveled to a country where measles is had still endemic brought the virus
To âÂ#Âoeeradicateã¢Â# a disease means to eliminate it entirely even to the point of the virus itself.
But there is no evidence the virus has been destroyed in the West. It is unclear exactly what evidence the Tarrant County Health Department has that the missionary brought the measles that supposedly infected the congregation.
keep it simple stupid your statement genetic modification happens in the lab only is wrong.
-when-it-was contaminated-with-cancer-virus. htmlknowing now what we know about vaccines and medicine you think our previous attempts at vaccines are full proof?
http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/11897278http://www. nvic. org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2010/Vaccine-Contamination-Pig-Virus
Antibiotics also came into play in the 1940's but that only treats bacterial critters and not viruses.
when thy tyrant overlords want to burn books they will just release a secret virus to delete
Moreover sex allows an unrelated possibly inferior partner to insert half a genome into the next generation.
and genetic roulette and simply clone themselves? Yes and no. Many animals do clone themselves; certain sea anemones can bud identical twins from the sides of their bodies.
Biologists say that the benefits of sex come from the genetic rearrangements that occur during meiosis the special cell division that produces eggs and sperm.
During meiosis combinations of the parents'genes are broken up and reconfigured into novel arrangements in the resulting sperm and egg cells creating new gene combinations that might be advantageous.
Shouldn't natural selection favor animals that forgo draining displays and genetic roulette and simply clone themselves?
One animal however has done just fine without any sex at all. Bdelloid rotifers can be found in most freshwater ponds measure a few tenths of a millimeter long contain only about 1000 cells
Harvard university biology professor Matthew Meselson and his lab have spent the past several years investigating bdelloids'molecular genetics.
By exposing bdelloids to extremely high levels of ionizing radiation (a treatment that causes hundreds of physical breaks in DNA strands) one of Meselson's former graduate students Eugene Gladyshev showed that bdelloids can completely rebuild their genomes an unprecedented feat
Bdelloids have foreign DNA from bacteria and fungi in their chromosomes which is a great way to maintain genetic diversity.
As for the rest of us we're stuck with sex. This article originally appeared in the May 2011 issue of Popular Science magazine. plants can clone however
My genes are awesome. Mating displays during periods which coencide with elevated testosterone do have the effect of removing the veil the immune system places over the genes
but that just improves the method of selection from the same group of flamboyent animals.
You yourself are an organism that is made from cells that have copied their genetic code Trillions upon Trillions of times;
Asexual reproduction that some plants participate in is precisely biological cloning. Well I can't agree with aerosphere
One key concept to keep in mind is that chromosomes are physical entities and how these are given to the offspring is in a large way
Chromosomes can be thought of as beads of genes on a string of DNA and in an organism capable of having sex the sister chromosomes (one from each parent) are separated off
and packaged into the sperm or egg cells. The key point being that by having redundancy (in the form of two slightly different copies of each bead on the sister chromosomes) the effects of both good and bad mutations can be moderated
and this encourages diversity by reducing the selective pressures on the current generation. In this way it follows that organisms that have sex have the freedom to'make evolutionary mistakes'in terms of mutations
-but also that a great gene arising on a chromosome with loads of rubbish genes won't be found guilty by association.
That is to say the great gene won't be erased immediately from record with the death of the organism-as it would be with an asexual organism with only a single copy of a chromosome
and no good genes on another chromosome able to compensate the bad ones. Obviously no one really knows exactly what'nature's thinking'is
but take genetic material from foreign sources such as alien humanoids. LOL...life imitating art? The point in sex is that it fills good of course.
It's known that about 50%of the human genome is of viral and bacterial but supressed origin.
Cooked meat contains very little Vitamin c notes Donald Beitz a nutritional biochemist at Iowa State university.
My question to you is do you have antibiotics that kill resistant bacteria's and viruses?
a virus that attacks the female reproductive system. It shuts it down. Why female? Because the female could artificially inseminate
The most contagious virus ever. Now of course we will have a cure. A complex TEMPORARY and expensive cure.
Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.
if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.
Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it; 3-D models would enable them to detect how ocean acidification
but they're still driven to ensure their genetic material is passed on. So they help their brightly colored dominant brothers seduce hens in a process called rather coyly cooperative courtship.
According to a study in this week's PLOS Genetics it's not the genes that matter it's how they're expressed.
University college London's Judith Mank and her colleagues found dominant and subordinate males had profound differences in the way their genes were expressed.
Compared to their subordinate counterparts the attractive dominant males showed higher expression of masculine genes predominantly found in males
and lower expression for genes mostly found in females. So genetically they have more masculine traits and fewer female traits.
and some submissive they think it could be tied to male hormones affecting gene expression according to the study's press release.
whether the same pattern of gene expression holds true for female turkeys. The study appears in the August 15 issue of PLOS Genetics.
I believe this article was written from a first person perspective. That said Wowzers what an interesting article e
'subtractive''additive'and'interactive.''The relationship between the liquid and the wood is one of the many intriguing aspects of whisky.
Megaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin and integument had evolved already before the rise of modern mammals says Zhe-Xi Luo one of the fossil's discoverers and a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.
Some of its other features though differentiate it from today's mammals. A middle ear still attached to the jaw is more reminiscent of reptiles
id=latest-theory-human-body-hairã¢Â#Âoemegaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin
or as is better know genetic mutation. How could something first evolve hair only to then decide later Hey I need scales or maybe feathers!
or squash gene for Vitamin a in rice is to them a sinister act. For countless generations civilization has used selective breeding
And Trooper Bri trundles the same lie cravens use to try to âÂ#Âoejustifyã¢Â# genetic engineering saying that humanity carried on selective breeding for thousands of years.
That was not genetic engineering. They were simply enhancing processes that would have happened normally. They did not invent new genetic material.
They did not introduce alien genetic material into plants or animals Like so many lies the safety of genetically modified food relies on yet other lies.
I'm sorry but it is scientifically proven by large studies that the golden rice is nothing but a scam.
There are technologies like terminator-genes but those are equally dangerous.@@Wonder you have to be a farmer in the Philippines
(or tainted depending on your viewpoint) by genetic engineering. Especially when it comes to corn. As much as 88 percent of corn grown in the U s. is modified genetically.
or any approved genetically modified food on the market to allergies one of his sources plant geneticist Pamela Ronald told him.
and biotech worlds Shetterly wrote in her piece though her piece does little to explain why beyond the notion that powerful agricultural corporations like Monsanto are preventing research into unknown allergens that might arise from genetic engineering.
Officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision has been derided by opponents of biotech lobbying as the âÂ#Âoemonsanto Protection Actã¢Â# as it would strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting
and bacteria to deliver the genes into the corn so that it can produce Delta Endotoxin.
For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs
or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
Currently the GMOS on the market today have been given genetic traits to provide protection from pests tolerance to pesticides
/27/the-genetics-and-politics-of-genetically-modified-foods/Good article natarajanganesan. Did you write that?
if the modified gene can have complications 1000x generations down the line. Why would the government pass a bill to protect Monsanto
and biological weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists; a possible threat that was neutralized by our removing Hussein from power
The results indicate that it would be prudent for GM CROPS that are destined for human food
and animal feed including stacked GM CROPS to undergo long-term animal feeding studies preferably before commercial planting particularly for toxicological and reproductive effects.
and these GM CROPS are consumed widely by people particularly in the USA so it would be be prudent to determine
Just add a few beef genes here and there another bag full of bread genes. Coffee-sized machines 3d-print algae foodstuffs-precursor so we can handle the texture-hurdle. z=textstyle-frac {3}
Dr. Mezzomo led the study in concert with the Department of Genetics and Morphology and the Institute of Biological sciences at University of Brasilia and it was published in the Journal of Hematology
and Thromboembolic Diseases. http://gmoevidencecom/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JHTD-1-104. pdfprofessor Joe Cummins (Professor Emeritus of Genetics University of Western Ontario) concurs
and he's kind of an expert. http://wwwi-sis. org. uk/Bt-toxin. phpit is no coincidence that Monsanto has invested so much money in our politicians and against measures such as California's Prop 37.
ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.
Institute of Biology in France looking at the effects of genetically modified corn. The research showed that in both male
At the same time however genetic engineering opponents such as Greenpeace launched campaigns against the technology. Consistent opposition against genetically modified crops has delayed every step of golden rice's development as Science magazine reported in 2008.
Golden rice continues to see opposition in the Philippines. Opponents worry that the rice will cross-pollinate with non-modified plants
genetic modification happens in the lab only.@@shutterpod...genetic modification happens in the lab only really guess you never heard of domestication corn hybrids or evolution?
do you think the corn we grow today is a form found wild? just as laurenra7 states this is more precise
The collapse of the North american biosphere. would it be too much to presume for me to see the hand of Monsanto in this;
and using the country for its genetic experiments regardless of the consequences to the indigenous living organisms nearby. has tried not anyone yet to connect the colony collapse disorder a k a. the dying bees. i mean the phenomenon has been observed
because the genetic material of the food they collect--the nectar--may have already been contaminated heavily from contact with GMO material that has escaped from dedicated-GMO farms. bee larvae do feed on honey
@shutterpod...serioiusly genetic modifications happen each time an animal or plant reproduces. Domesticated animals and cultivated crops are genetically different from the wild varieties they were derived from
Isn't genetic engineering merely a minor extension of traditional breeding practices? A. No. While farmers have used crossbreeding techniques to cultivate crop
and animal species with desired characteristics genetic engineering represents a radical departure from this practice. Crossbreeding can only occur within closely-related life forms.
Genetic engineering allows scientists to cross the species barrier mixing genetic material among of animals plants and microorganism.
The offspring of genetic engineering would never be found in nature. For example fish genes have been placed in tomatoes human genes in tobacco bacteria in corn and viruses in squash and fruit.
Your statement was wrong and now you argue about a totally different matter to show how superior you are...
keep it simple stupid your statement genetic modification happens in the lab only is wrong.
I contrasted natural breeding to direct genetic modification/manipulation...The statement wasn't wrong it simply wasn't to your liking.
The tiny masterpieces of biomedical engineering are nearly identical to tissue samples from real human livers
In labs around the world bioengineers have begun to print prototype body parts: heart valves ears artificial bone joints menisci vascular tubes and skin grafts.
From 2008 to 2011 the number of scientific papers referencing bioprinting nearly tripled. Investment in the field has spiked as well.
Since 2007 the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National institutes of health has awarded $600000 in grants to bioprinting projects.
The very first bioprinters weren't expensive or fancy. They resembled cheap desktop printers because in fact that's
In 2000 bioengineer Thomas Boland the self-described grandfather of bioprinting eyed an old Lexmark printer in his lab at Clemson University.
Scientists had modified already inkjet printers to print fragments of DNA in order to study gene expression. If an inkjet could print genes Boland thought perhaps the same hardware could print other biomaterials.
After all the smallest human cells are 10 micrometers roughly the dimension of standard ink droplets.
While Boland's lab worked out the problem of bioprinting other engineers applied 3-D printers to different medical challenges.
So Boland and other bioprinting pioneers modified their printers. They disabled the paper-feed mechanisms in their inkjets
Suddenly bioengineers went from drawing life on a flat canvas to building living sculptures. It was like magic says James Yoo a researcher at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine who is developing a portable printer to graft skin directly onto burn victims.
As somewhat of an outsider coming in to biology my impression was'Okay I'm gonna put the cells in the right place incubate it for a while
Suddenly bioengineers went from drawing life on a flat canvas to building living sculptures. A printer that can dispense the right ink in other words is only the first step.
In the case of a meniscus it might mean developing a bioreactor that can approximate pounding
At Wake Forest Yoo's and Atala's teams built custom bioprinters that are modified faster than inkjets
and they can be used to deliver genes and growth factors to developing cells. But as in the case of polymers they can introduce foreign materials into the body and cause inflammation.
As a result not everyone believes scaffolds are necessary including Gabor Forgacs Organovo's cofounder and a biological physicist at the University of Missouri.
Therein lies the biggest misconception about bioprinting: What most people think of as the finished product the newly printed cellular material isn't finished at all.
and triggering a change in gene expression. A grant from the National Science Foundation enabled Forgacs
and his team to experiment with bioprinters instead of laying down aggregates by hand and the technology transformed their research.
Using a bioprinter Forgacs proved that aggregates containing different cell types also fuse without any human intervention or environmental cues.
You will never build an extended biological structure a big organ or tissue by putting down individual cells Forgacs says.
Ibrahim Ozbolat a mechanical engineer at the University of Iowa has developed also a bioprinter which uses multiple arms moving in tandem to deposit a vascular network and cellular aggregates at the same time.
and complexity of the vascular system graduating from biological parts and pieces to whole printed organs will become only a matter of time.
Several of the company's 10 bioprinters have been named and labeled for characters from the 1997 sci-fi film The Fifth Element.
Steps from Willis's Dallas past a half dozen refrigerator-size incubators sit the bioprinters Ruby
What bioprinters so far lack and what will enable the field's next wave of breakthroughs is sophisticated biologically software.
Sensing an opportunity Autodesk has teamed with Organovo to develop CAD programs that could be applied to bioprinting.
Eventually its goal is to integrate the math that describes self-assembly and other cellular processes into bioprinting software.
In April Olguin's team released Project Cyborg a Web-based platform geared toward nanoscale molecular modeling and simulations for cellular biology.
Organovo's first biological product will be liver tissue for drug testing. Every year the pharmaceutical industry spends more than $39 billion on R&d.
Bioprinters could build organs with tumors so that surgeons could practice. At Stanford researchers have tried to get around this problem by breeding mice with livers made up mostly of human cells.
A study published in October showed the mice predicted how well a drug for treating hepatitis C would be metabolized by humans.
If bioprinted assays provide pharmaceutical researchers with better quicker data the entire drug-discovery process will accelerate.
Bioprinters could also prove invaluable for medical schools. Students now train on cadavers but when it comes to procedures like cutting out cancer nothing matches the real experience.
Rather than printing healthy tissue bioprinters could build organs with tumors or other defects so that surgeons could practice before entering an operating room.
Bioprinting organs with cells grown from a patient's own body could eventually help doctors churn out perfect matches at will.
Perhaps scientists say bioprinters could even enable bionic organs body parts that don't just restore but extend human ability.
To that end researchers at Princeton university have been experimenting with integrating electronics into bioprinting. Earlier this year they created a matrix of hydrogel
In a similar manner bioengineers might one day incorporate sensors into other tissues for example creating a bionic meniscus that can monitor strain.
Bioprinters are already demonstrating scientists'remarkable mastery of biology and engineering. Back at Organovo inside an otherwise unremarkable neon-lit clean room Dallas arranges human cells into intricate patterns that mirror those of nature.
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