Theme Index: Summaries and Scientific Papers

Theme: Genetic Engineering (GE) – Summaries and Scientific Papers

• Tumor-Causing Plant Bacteria May Infect Human Cells
• Tumor Causing Plant Bacterium May Infect Humans
• Bacteria Transfer Genes to Human
• New US 'mystery' corn viruses – is GM the prime suspect?
• Two New Corn Viruses Discovered
• New Scientist: The Greener Revolution
• codominant Bt resistance of pink bollworm in cotton
• Scientist points out possibility of Roundup Ready wheat crossing with goatgrass weed
• bacteria to human gene transfer
• New Book: The Corporate Take over of Science
• [BIO-IPR] Resource pointer –- many URLs
• New Statesman article: Thank you for the genes we eat.
• Rachel #716: Biotech –The Basics, Part 1
• GM plantings in 2000
• Comprehensive study shows immense deficiencies in GM safety studies
• GM potatoes have negative effects on soil bacteria
• Bt-toxin from GM maize released into the soil
• Slow development of soybean looper larvae on Bt cotton
• Cotton bollworm resistant to Bt-cotton in China
• Glyphosate application has negative effects on soil microorganisms
• Again pesticides connected to Parkinson's disease
• Genetic Cow For RBGH Use
• References – Problems With The Technology (01/23/01)
• References – Problems With GMO Contamination
• CASHING IN ON LIFE
• BIOTECH MISTAKES 1995 – Jan.2001
• Some Food for FDA Regulation –- GE Soy is different
• The Guardian: Against the grain (feed the world)
• Science Article Showing How Science Politics Obfuscates Issues
• Science Editorial: Antibiotics in Animal Farming
• DNA: Farm Animals may be What They Eat
• Abstract of the Doomsday Virus Report
• Little Green Monkys that Glow in the Dark
• The Killing Fields – Terminator Crops at Large
• Roundup Ready Soybean Yield Gap Closing
• Aussie scientists stumble across the Doomsday Bug
• US to take temperature of mercury threat
• Human Gene For Potato Multiherbicide Tolerance
• several human gens for more herbicide tolerance
• GM barley and beer the final advance of biotech
• Herbicide-resistant Turfgrass Alert
• Pusztai on Morton and is GM food safe + research References
• Clouds gather over Chinese and Australian GM crops
• Early resistance of Helicoverpa armigera (Hubner) to Bt
• Host-plant diversity of the European corn borer Ostrinia nubilalis:
• soil fungi affected by RR(r) soybean regimes
• MU researchers find fungi buildup in glyphosate-treated soybean fields
• Herbicide Impact on Fusarium spp. and Soybean Cyst Nematode in Glyphosate-Tolerant Soybean.
• Related Conventional and Transgenic Cotton Cultivars
• Global review of commercialized transgenic crops: 2000
• Synthetic Bt Super Gene
• Baculovirus Vectors Invade The Brain
• Baculovirus Infection Of Mammaian Cells
• GE Low Browning Apples
• Genotypes: GM Seed 2000 Summary
• Evidence that Bt cry1 Damages the Ileum
• German scientists discover soil ecology alterations by GE potatoes
• CpG Sequence in Bacterial DNA and Inflamation
• National Farmers Union (Canada) calls for Ban on Genetically Modified Foods
• Scientific doubts about GM corn
• Moves Against Penn Scientist
• The Top 200; Who is in Charge?
• BIOWATCH: RAFI Geno-type: Calendar of Calamities 2000
• GM cross-pollination creates more herbicide-resistant plants
• The Lurid Soil Bacterium Klebsiella planticola
• URL to good scientific critique of GM
• Canola Oil food or ? (on Fats and Health)
• Learning How To Amplify Genes
• Monsanto plant defensins
• Substantial Equivalence Not At All
• Re: Substantial Equivalence (Aflatoxins)
• Patent on amimals with human body parts
• Yield problems with RR soybeans under dry conditions
• Sierra Club FINAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club TECHNICAL comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club Questions on the Assessment of Scientific Information (excellent summary)
• Sierra Club REFERENCES to comments to EPA on StarLink (excellent summary)
• The strategy of Flooding with useless Research
• Alliance for Bio-Integrity statement re: Starlink corn
• Forbes Magazine: "Corporate Saboteurs go mainstream"
• EPA may be wrong judging toxicity of GE food
• resistance to Bt in bollworm
• Sheep growth accelerated by GE lupins
• cloned animals need fuller study
• GM foods and denial of rights and choices
• Gene patenting: Over half a million patents on genetic code are pending or granted
• Useful Tips To Avoid GM Foods
• 'Sound science' as ideology
• A Useful Reference On Canola Gene Spread
• Spread Of Toxin Gene In E Coli By Use Of Antibiotics
• Excellent Genetic Engineering Newsletter – internet link
• Organics under fire! – Strategies the AgChem + Food Industries are using to Discredit Organics
• Another Report On Transgenes As Invaders To Be Silenced
• Cheese: Biotechnological approaches to the understanding and improvement of mature cheese flavour
• BABA a natural chemical to fight plant disease
• Biotechnology Risk Perception In Liability Insurance
• An Economic Interpretation of the Precautionary Principle
• Transgenes Are Cellular Invaders
• A Virus that Replicates in both Plants and Animals
• Implications of "a virus that replicates in both plants and animals"
• More on "a virus that replicates in both plants and animals"
• The first GM Organism released
• Multiple Examples Of Science Corruption.
• BIOWATCH: GM crop 'con-trick' – new paper
• Paper: Big Holes in GM Testing
• Inside information about Starlink
• Gene Surgery For Antibiotic Resistance Genes
• backgroundinfo on resistance to Cry1F and on Starlink
• US view of Mad Cow
• GE field tests and wierd science
• F.O.E.Press Release: Scientists Slam GM Research
• Key StarLink Documents now available & Daily Exposure to Cry9c
• A Potential Alternative to GM
• The Power of genetic Recombination
• Suppressed Information about the Real Hazards of GE Foods
• A drug to change the genes
• Concerns over GE Wheat and Cross-Polination
• Health Aspects of Bt Plant-Pesticides (Allergenicity, Toxicity etc.)
• Bacillus thuringiensis and its Toxins as Biopesticides
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• GM crop – Bee Disease link etc.
• GMO on Bees: testimony by Joe Rowland to the N.Y. Assembly
• Use & Abuse of the Precautionary Principle – especially re GMOs
• Key DNA fragments can enter the human food chain, reveals research by Commons committee
• The Human Genome – The Biggest Sellout in Human History
• Endorse Freeze on Genetically Modified Food etc. in SA.
• GM food dangers. A declaration by Dr Richard Lacey
• Molecular Barrier to lock out GE and foreign genes
• The Online Shoppers Guide to GM [in UK]
• Don't Ignore The Risks
• Tyson Stops Buying Genetically Altered Corn
• Stray genes highlight superweed danger
• Dutch study: Starlink protein stimulated antibodies in lab rats
• "Buried Data in Monsanto's Study on Roundup Ready Soybeans"
• Experimenting with Life, by David Suzuki
• Biotech, Poverty, Hunger & Developing Nations
• US Senate Testimony: "The Future of Food: Biotech. and Consumer Confidence"
• Evidence of harm to human subjects in GE experiments
• Disastrous Bayer vaccin appears to be GE.
• Genetically engineered crops allowed in US food supply
• Announcing ISIS News No 6. (Invaluable info – Please circulate)
• Transmission of BSE by blood transfusion in sheep
• Hagelin on food safety and GMOs
• Public Unease on GMOs well founded, says expert
• Shocking lack of knowledge
• Discussion: "Soy Alert".
• Lymphatic Plague
• Biotech Be careful, take precautions [Le Monde Diplomatique]
• GE bacteria being released into US soils?
• Intoxicating bacterium kills plants
• Benbrook GM paper available as slide show
• Fuel Cells generate Electricity
• BST milk: very useful published works.
• Prion disease - dormant but deadly
• Pigs Transplants Release Virus Infecting Human Cells
• Bad News For Genetic Engineering: Lymphatic Plague
• BIOWATCH: Biotech, Poverty & Hunger in Developing Nations
• Bursting the Biotech Bubble
• Stink Bugs
• New Study Links Biotech Corn To Butterfly Deaths
• Altered corn a threat to butterflies
• Plants rendered herbicide-susceptible by cauliflower mosaic virus-elicited suppression of a 35S promoter-regulated transgene
• Excellent Summary: "Immediate Global Ban of GM Food"
• Soy - the full story
• Refined Sugar: The sweetest Poison of All ("The SugarBlues")
• Global Crisis – Aspartame artificial sweetener
• The Organic Revolution in Science and Implications for Science and Spirituality
• madder cows
• "Barnase or terminator by any other still stinks"
• Novartis pins hopes for GM seeds on new marker system
• We told them so! The CaMV promoter thinks it is still a virus!
• USDA on its terminator
• GM crops change microbial ecology
• GM crops may eliminate birds
• The Next US President and globalisation.
• The Promise of Biotechnology – the Threat of Genetically Modified Organisms.
• What is GM Food and what’s all the fuss about
• Soybean Products – A Recipe for Disaster?
• Antioxidant Lycopene made from GE e-coli
• Cannabis cures athritis
• GM Monoculture may be inferior to diversity
• Herbicide Resistance is Out of Control say Canola Farmers
• phytoestrogens fight asthma
• Retrovirus Infection From Pig Transplants
• Perseverance Leads to Cloned Pig in Japan.
• The Promise of Plant Biotechnology (useful info)
• Religion: Genetically Altered Foods Violate Bounds Of Creation
• horizontal gen transfer parasite to host
• Transgenic Crops Leave Persistent Microbes In Soil
• Predicted CJD (mad cow) mortality in Britain
• BSE (mad cow disease ) and scrapie
• DNA machines
• Monarchs hit by field GM pollen – Iowa Study
• Bt corn and swallowtale butterfly
• Testing Bt refuge strategies in the field
• Genetic Mutations Accumulating Rapidly, Scientists Say
• Flourescent Pseudomonads Good Biotech Without Genetic Modification
• Can a deadly spider replace chemical pesticides?
• Buffer zone for GM crops 'does not work'
• Bacillus Thuringiensis And Its Relatives
• Dangers of GE Food (good short 1 page summary - please print and distribute)
• Summary of Concerns
• A Science-based, Precautionary Approach to the Labeling of GE Foods
• DuPont attempts to influence anti-GM food campaigners
• From boom to bust in three seasons - the rapid rise and fall of GE markets
• GM dangers / quote
• Study Concludes Biotech Food Losing Ground with Consumers
• Growth Stimulation of Beetle Larvae Reared on a Transgenic Oilseed Rape
• Re: "Something New: Therazoan Vectors for Genetic Engineering"
• Transgenic Corn is Extra Tough Stuff
• HUMAN GENOME (good short sumary)
• The Ecological Impacts of Transgenic Crops on Agroecosystem
• Research by Iowa State University confirming monarch butterflies damaged by GE pollen from Bt corn. See:
• Review on Non-Target Organisms and Transgenic Bt Plants
• Excellent New Briefing on the Risks of GM Foods
• Book: "Genetic Engineering, Food, and Our Environment"
• BioDemocracy News #27: Who's Winning the Frankenfoods Fight?
• Natural Remedy More Effective Than GM?
• Dissertation: Genetic Engineering and it's effect on sustainable food security
• Rats! this is Fishy: Xenotransplantation: Fish–to– Rat
• Agrobacterium Gene Transfer to Plants
• Ecological Impact of Transgenics
• Robert Cohen: Secret rBGH Study
• Vitamin A in Tomato
• Avadin in Corn Kills Storage Insects
• Metallothionein Gene From Mouse in Soil Bacteria
• New Scientist: Apocalypse When
• Ethical Issues of GMO at OSU (Ohio State University)
• Resistance to Bt noted in laboratories and cotton weevils
• Terminator Technology: The Threat to World Food Security
• Novartis's New Marker-Gene System Targets Genetically Modified Crops
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency -- The Biology of Oil Seed Rape (Canola)
• CaMV promoter is dangerous
• Questions and Answers on Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV)
• PSRAST article and ZDF news release
• Debate 2000'0522 a: 'New Risks' of transgenic crops.
• GE Gene Transfer in Gut of Bees
• Insect Product Causes Cancers in Plants
• Xenotransplantation and humanizing pigs: Recent developments
• Vandana Shiva - BBC Reith Lecture on Globalization (long)
• BIOWATCH: Attack on scientific debate
• Important GE food safety documents
• Biopiracy: the slavery of the new millennium? surely not
• Anti-greenie on our Side: Risk of escaped GM food genes
• How the Neem patent fight was won
• Lateral Gene Transfer in Bacteria (genes like antibiotic resistance)
• Precautionary Principle (the view of the US establishment)
• Biotech In Trouble – Part 1
• Biotech In Trouble – Part 2
• Cohen: Direct result of genetic engineering: human sickness
• Info-Editorial on GM foods
• Insect Resistance and the Future of Bt Transgenic Plants
• A pest might make a comeback thanks to engineered "weeds"
• Of Consuming Interest: Go Organic.
• Doctors seek ethical controls on centralized databanks
• New Biotech Consequence
• Antibiotic Resistance Gene Transfer In Gut
• Bt found to reduce toxin in corn
• does GE really reduce toxin in corn? does it matter?
• Messenger A ace protein
• the "new" GM: using chimeric RNA/DNA
• food, consciousness, and genetic engineering
• Survey Shows Europeans Fearful of GM Foods and Cloning
• non GM medical marijuana
• Book: Soil Microorganisms and Higher Plants
• Jumping Gene "sleeping beauty" from GM Fish to People
• General references and links- Biotech & Forestry
• Danger: Naked DNA: Routes of human uptake
• Unintended gene silencing in GM crops
• Brain at Risk from the Environment
• New genes protect trees from insects, disease
• Effects of Klebsiella planticola SDF20
• Diabetes: Bellagio Report 1996
• corn promoter mutations from insertion
• Lateral Gene Transfer
• DEB News: FDA DECEIT - Sick animals make for sick humans
• plastic genes
• DNA Banks for Endangered Animal Species
• Organic foods vs. supermarket foods: Element levels
• Misuse of Southern hemisphere Hunger and Poverty as an argument for GE
• GM foods as human experimentation
• Insect Population Control using a Dominant, Repressible Lethal Genetic System
• one level of explanation of GE delusions
• Terminator and Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed and Food Supply
• Concerns Regarding The Use Of Biotech In Developing Countries
• "Glyphosate (Round-Up) a Few Useful References"
• baculovirus insecticides
• L tryptophan - EMS expert
• Eliminating Antibiotic Res Genes
• tests for GM crops in fed animals
• THE DNA-SEQUENCING BUBBLE
• Virus genes: stinking smut
• Bt resistance management
• field test of virus
• A Cold-Hearted Gene
• Isolating the Meningitis Gene: can any good come out of these sequences?
• DYSFUNCTIONAL SCIENCE: Towards a "pseudoscientific world order"?
• Genetically Modified (GM) Foods and Crops are Unsafe
• Robert Cohen: Truth or Consequencs
• Errors, gene sequencing, patents
• Report on the Dispersal of Maize Pollen
• New terminator patent: US5723765: Control of plant gene expression
• patent US5977441: Control of plant gene expression
• GM crops -- are they safe ?
• Arguments for GE Food Withdrawal
• Monsanto spuds with virus -insect resitance
• The Flagship of the Fleet: GE Insulin
• some GE flops
• 90 scientists: GE food must be withdrawn from the market
• Virus Problems From Pig to Human Transplants
• Stealth Virus And Viteria
• BAN literature, pamphlets, articles, videos and bumperstickers
• The Thalidomide Of Genetic Engineering
• Benbrook AAAS Paper Posted
• No evidence of toxic bacteria in organic produce
• Shiga Toxin and Sex in Bacteria
• Rutgers study re: minerals in crops
• E coli with shiga toxin
• viruses in gene therapy
• Emerging "R&D" Pattern in Genes May Reduce Evolution's Risks
• Genetically Engineered Vitamin 'A' Rice: A Blind Approach to Blindness Prevention
• Tandem constructs for superweed prevention
• Tandem Constructions
• Viteria? Stealth Viruses!
• updated version of 'GE Crops and Contamination'
• New page on the myth of E.Coli / Faecal Contamination
• A Sweeter Deal than Expected from Transgenic Sugar Beets
• Re: mercury GE plants
• Book: Genetically Engineered Food: Changing The Nature Of Nature
• Book: Beyond Evolution
• New Protein Discovered
• What is Sustainable / Organic Agriculture
• More Help or More Harm? Genetically Engineered Crops and World Hunger
• Genetic Engineeeing Using Prions
• Profound Understanding of GMOs
• Frito-Lay: Perhaps 150,000 to 200,000 acres
• GM Food Hazards and the Science War
• No to GMOs – Civil Society vs. Corporate Empire
• Genetic Engineering: A Violation of Natural Law
• Yellow Rice and Beta Carotene
• New book "Stolen Harvest" by Vandana Shiva
• GM mucous-corn
• Genetic Engineering Should Be Taken Slowly: Professor
• Good news: The Ban-GEF Archive with Search Engine!
• Dismantling the GE myth – important article
• Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin (Dipel ES) in the European Corn Borer
• Can A Virus Infect Plants And Animals?
• The DNA-sequencing Bubble
• Genetic Modification: The Shocking Truth
• Transposons and Endogenous Virus in Plant Chromosomes
• Nuclear Genes In Plants
• DNA: A new letter in the code
• Transgenic and Mad Cow Disease
• Commercialization of Genetic Research and Public Policy
• "E"-number nasties (in UK products)
• CaMV recombination when and where?
• Plant virus infects animals :recombination is crucial
• Viruses That Jump From Olants To Animals
• New Novartis Patents II
• New Novartis Patents (rest)
• How do you get DNA into a plant? Blow a hole in it
• Ca. Mosaic Virus: a reply to a reply from Doug from EPA
• London Times: GM crop toxin is leaking into the soil
• GM dangers, and GM enzyme list.
• CaMV promoter virus – a recipe for disaster?
• The failings of the principle of substantial equivalence in regulating transgenic foods
• Beyond 'Substantial Equivalence'
• 13 Myths About Genetic Engineering
• Glyphosate May Harm Beneficial Organisms
• Introduction into Animal Feeds and Strategic Overview
• Frankenfoods Fiasco: Has Global Opposition Killed Ag Biotech? (Part 1)
• BIO-RECKLESSNESS: Why the Venture to Genetically Restructure Our Food Violates Sound Science and U.S. Law
• Chimeraplasty: editing of Genetic Code
• GM Foods CAN Be Tested
• The Hazards of Genetically-engineered Foods
• Substantial Equivalence
• Ten Reasons why farmers should think twice before growing GE crops
• Initial paper on GM "substantial equivalence"
• 10 Reasons Biotech Will NOT Ensure Food Security
• GM Crops – Genetic Pollution Proved
• New Book: "Beyond Evolution"
• New Book: "Hazard Identification of Agriculture Biotechnology"
• World Hunger: 12 Myths
• Deutsche Bank's provocative July 12, 1999 report "Ag Biotech: Thanks, But No Thanks?"
• Concerns about the herbicide Liberty (Glufosinate)
• Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops: Why We Need A Global Moratorium
• The Problem with the Safety of Roundup Ready Soybeans
• A New Inheritance Pattern For Bt Resistance
• Chaotic gene silencing in GM plants
• Alterations in Clinically Important Phytoestrogens in Genetically Modified, Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans
• Genetically Modified Organisms – Press briefing
• Derailing the Biotech Express: US & Global Activists at the Crossroads
• Agronomic problems with transgenic crops: a summary
• Aspartame Case Summary (long)
• Aspartame is Produced by GE Bacteria According to Leading Research Lab
• Transgenic pollen harms monarch larvae
• New book on genetic engineering and its hazards
• Will GE Crops Mean Infected Food, Bodies, And Ecosystems?
• The Herbicide Gluphosinate (Liberty or Basta) Causes Birth Defects
• Dominant mutants to Bt resistance in corn borer
• Corn Refuge Spreads Dominant Bt Mutants
• Transcript of a Radio Interview With Prof. John Fagan
• Corn Refuge Spreads Dominant Bt Mutants
• "The Millennium Choice – Genetic Engineering or Natural Law?"
• Genetically Engineered Food, Executive Summary
• Scientific Paper: Foreign DNA can enter the body
• 10 Reasons to Ban Genetically Engineered Foods and Drugs
• Biotechnology May Turn into 'Farmaceutical' Delivery Systems
• Are GE Foods Safer than Natural Foods because they have been Tested Scientifically?
• World Scientists' Statement: Calling for a Moratorium on GM
• World Scientists' Statement: Supplementary Information
• Material Data Sheet on Aspartame
• Agrobacterium gene vectors
• GE Summary by Charles Benbrook
• The real facts of genetically modified food
• GE Foods: The Dangers (Basic Information)
• GE foods – Current tests are inadequate protection
• GE scandal In a nutshell – Globe&Mail article – Tony Blair info
• Frankenstein Foods
• Aspartame And Joint Pain
• Industrial Enzymes are Top Allergens
• Bookreview: Against the Grain
• A Virus Promoter Used in the Majority of Genetically Engineered Crops
• 35S Promoter (CaMV) in Calgene's Flavr Savr Tomato Creates Hazard
• Research Abstracts re Cauliflower Mosaic Virus
• Publications about CaMV
• Spread Of Type I Introns In Plants
• Global Action Plan: AVOIDING DANGEROUS FOODS
• Facts about Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.)
• Not Just Another Scare: Toxin Additives in Your Food and Drink
• NY Times Magazine: "Playing God in the Garden"
• GREED OR NEED? Genetically modified crops
• Questions And Answers On Lectins
• Scientific Paper on Bt and Refuge
• BGH (Bovine Growth Hormone) Background
• Research: Foreign DNA enters the Body
• From Major Hallett to Biological Warfare on Farmers Terminator Technology
• Mad Cow Disease, Part 1
• Aspartame: Seizures and other Hazards
• Genetically engineered oilseed rape (canola) Overview
• Warning About Food That Is Genetically Engineered
• Scientific Facts about GE
• Firm reveals cross-species transplant studies
• The Case Against Genetic Engineering
• Genetic Engineering: Scientists And Doctors Call For Moratorium
• Biotech Setback
• Biotech industry reaps as it has sown
• What has to change if organic agriculture is to prosper? by Prof. J.Cummins
• The 17 violations of the USDA proposed Organic Standard
• US Organic Standards: How to Win the Battle
• Declaration of Physicians and Scientists Against G E Food
• Genetic Engineering: Technology or Cookery? Good Summary by Prof. J. Clemens
  
• How to Shop to Avoid Genetically Engineered Food
• Organic Standards At Risk (9 points)
  
• What's wrong with GE food? (by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho)
  
• Biotech Blunders and Disasters
• Australia / New Zealand Saftety Assessment Paper
• Genetically Altered Food (USA Today)
• Biotechnology's Bounty (New York Times)
• Allergies to Transgenic Foods (New England Journal of Medicine)

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