Exploding population, shrinking food supplies: The Future of Food. Emergency! Pathogen New to Science Found in Roundup Ready GM Crops? Dear Secretary Vilsack: A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and probably human beings.
Based on a review of the data, it is widespread, very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans and corn-suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science! This is highly sensitive information that could result in a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies.
On the other hand, this new organism may already be responsible for significant harm (see below). We are informing the USDA of our findings at this early stage, specifically due to your pending decision regarding approval of RR alfalfa. For example, 450 of 1,000 pregnant heifers fed wheatlege experienced spontaneous abortions. The Organic Elite Surrenders to Monsanto: What Now? Genetically Engineered Food News. Scientists re-sequence 6 corn varieties, find some genes missing. Most living plant and animal species have a certain, relatively small, amount of variation in their genetic make-up.
Differences in height, skin and eye color of humans, for example, are very noticeable, but are actually the consequences of very small variations in genetic makeup. Researchers at Iowa State University, China Agricultural University and the Beijing Genomics Institute in China recently re-sequenced and compared six elite inbred corn (maize) lines, including the parents of the most productive commercial hybrids in China.
When comparing the different inbred corn lines, researchers expected to see more variations in the genes than in humans. Surprisingly, researchers found entire genes that were missing from one line to another. "That was a real eye opener," said Patrick Schnable, director of the Center for Plant Genomics and professor of agronomy at ISU. The research uncovered more than 100 genes that are present in some corn lines but missing in others. First there was the glow-in-the-dark cat... Now meet Tagon, the world's first glowing dog.
By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:07 GMT, 29 July 2011 By day, Tagon looks like any other beagle.
But under the cover of darkness, she can glow an eerie green. South Korean scientists say they have created a fluorescent dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Before and after: Tagon's paw is like any other dog's in daylight, but glows bright green under ultraviolet light when she is given a special antibiotic The breakthrough comes three years after U.S. boffins made a glow-in-the-dark cat by modifying its DNA, also in the hope of treating a range of conditions. Tagon, who was born in 2009, was found to beam bright green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic. Researchers from Seoul National University (SNU)'s College of Veterinary Medicine, who completed the two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog's food.