Category Archives: Genetic Engineering

Vermont Governor Pat Shumlin intends to sign legislation requiring the labeling of foods that contain ingredients that are genetically modified (GMOs) or produced with genetic engineering. The governors office announced via Twitter that the signing will take place Thursday, May 8. Once the bill is signed, Vermont will become the first state to require mandatory GMO labeling. The Vermont House approved the bill as amended by the Senate by a vote of 114-30 on April 24. The proposed effective date is July 1, 2016. It is estimated that 80% of all food sold in the United States is at least partially produced from genetic engineering. The bill would require labeling on all such food sold at retail in Vermont, regardless of whether the food was manufactured in the state. Vermont lawmakers included a $1.5 million legal defense fund in the bill because they expect the law to face legal challenges after the signing. While the bill exempts processing aids and milk from cows that have been fed GMO feed, many dairy products and other foods that incorporate milk would be affected unless they were made with organic ingredients. New York GMO bill advances The New York General Assemblys Committee on … Continue reading →

Scientists have created the first organism with synthetic DNA that can replicate in a cell, an achievement that promises to add new letters to the genetic code underlying life on earth. In the natural world, just two chemical base pairs, known simply as A-T and C-G, constitute the building blocks of DNA in all life forms. Research published yesterday in the journal Nature describes the creation of a cell that contains a man-made base pair, dubbed d5SICS-dNAM. By expanding the natural boundaries of what constitutes life, scientists hope they can one day create new proteins that can handle a variety of chores in the body, potentially leading to unique ways to attack disease. The approach is safe, the researchers said, because it includes a chemical additive that the cell needs to survive. We created an organism that lives and stably harbors genetic information in its DNA, said Floyd Romesberg, a chemist at La Jolla, California-based Scripps Research Institute, whose laboratory created the new organism. Instead of two base pairs, it has a third. All life on earth is based on the combination of four chemicals. Adenine bonds naturally with thymine to create the A-T section of the formula, while guanine … Continue reading →

d27m - genetic engineering (omd cover) 2014 genetic engineering by d27m. 2014. http://www.d27m.fr.mu. By: allankardec17 … Continue reading →

Genetic Engineering Review Cloning of a Gene, Southern Blotting, PCR, and Cloning of an Organism. By: Rebecca Poliner … Continue reading →

Minecraft- Genetic Engineering Ranch Tour This is Dr. Mephesto's Lab. By: SouthParkGamer45 … Continue reading →

COMING SOON: Food products that contain higher levels of phytosterols for reduced cholesterol, crops with higher levels of carotenoids for increased vitamin A, potato loaded with antioxidants, low-linolenic soybean, and high-lysine corn. These may be farfetched but the possibilities are endless. Thanks to genetic engineering, the crops of the future will no longer be just dreams but realities. Already, the world has seen eggplant and corn that defy pests, vitamin A-rich rice, herbicide tolerant soybean, virus resistant papaya, and high laureate canola. They are called genetically modified (GM) crops, which are products of biotechnology, a "technique that makes use of organism (or parts of it) to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop microorganisms for specific purposes." GM crops are made through a process called genetic engineering. Dr. Antonio Alfonso, a plant breeder at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) and the Crops Biotechnology Center director said genetic engineering is employed because of the following reasons: the trait is not present in the germplasm of the plant; the trait is very difficult to incorporate using conventional breeding methods; and it would take a very long time to introduce and/or improve such trait in the crop … Continue reading →

Korey Fung Ethics of Genetic Engineering Designer Babies Reproductive Revolution Student Korey Fung presents "Ethics of Genetic Engineering: Designer Babies and the Reproductive Revolution" on April 8, 2014 in the Technology and Future of... By: Kim Solez … Continue reading →

No to Genetic Engineering | People and Politics Genetic engineering is banned in berlingen by Lake Constance. The town in Baden-Wrttemberg, a state ruled by a coalition of the Green party and the Social ... By: DW (English) … Continue reading →

Human Genetic Engineering Final Project By: Jazmine Byrd … Continue reading →

Genetic Engineering and Insulin CSE 684 Assignment #3. By: Amanda Tuss … Continue reading →