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One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple Tomato Eater
News reports say that researchers from the John Innes Center in the UK have grown a potentially cancer-preventing tomato. These tomatoes genetically altered to grow with the dark purple pigment anthocyanin are hoped to either prevent or reduce the effects of a number of chronic diseases including cancer. When the... (read the rest)
Drawing the line on genetically engineered pets
Catching up on the last little bit of year end list-making, here's Wired's "Top 10 New Organisms of 2007." The collection includes quite a few organisms that you might call useful or productive -- vaccine-producing button mushrooms and mice that model schizophrenia, for example. But a few of the... (read the rest)
Foreign Policy's 10 "missed" stories of 2007
Sure, the magazine's list includes items about topics such as borders, juntas and terrorism. But it also touches on transgenics, disease and robots: (descriptions from FP's site) #6 The American Heartland Grows Crops -- with Human Proteins Farmers have long experimented with crops bred to produce better yields, with few... (read the rest)
About those glow in the dark cats
As Kelly posted earlier, the South Koreans have cloned cats with RFP genes. A side-effect is that the cats glow under ultraviolet light. Sure, there's probably a legitimate scientific reason for these experiments (it proves that the manipulated gene was passed on to the clone), but the cynic in me... (read the rest)
Transgenic fish bust in New Zealand
Via Art Caplan comes word that authorities in New Zealand recently seized more than 300 of those fish that have been modified to produce a fluorescent red protein (their "brand name" is GloFish). As Art points out, it's still not clear which regulatory agency in the USA has authority... (read the rest)
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