121. National Center Genetic Enginnering And Biotechnology (BIOTEC) has placed increased emphasis on biotechnology over the last decade, with the establishmentof the National Center for genetic engineering and Biotechnology http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/nstda/biotec/biotec.html

"Success in Multidisciplinary Research" R ecognizing the potentials of biotechnology to affect a broad spectrum of industries, Thailand has placed increased emphasis on biotechnology over the last decade, with the establishment of the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) in 1983, and the launching of the Science and Technology Development Board (STDB) in 1985. During the first eight years, BIOTEC obtained its authority directly from the ministry of Science, Technology and Environment and is in charge of coordinating biotechnology research and development across the country. The two activities, BIOTEC and STDB, were merged as part of the National Science and Technology Development Agency ( NSTDA NSTDA Support Service ... Laboratories

122. Genetic Engineering--Contemporary Studies/Human Body Lesson Plan (grades 9-12)-- Students discover ethical issues and concepts surrounding thepractice of genetic engineering in reproductive medicine. http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/geneticengineering/

Grades K-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Astronomy/Space ... Health History Ancient History U.S. History World History Life Science Animals Ecology Human Body The Microscopic World ... Weather For our newsletter and special teacher promotions. 9-12 > Contemporary Studies Grade level: 9-12 Subject: Contemporary Studies Duration: Two class periods Objectives Materials Procedures Adaptations ... Credit Find a video description, video clip, and discussion questions. Designer Babies Use our free online Teaching Tools to create custom worksheets, puzzles and quizzes on this topic! Students will: discover ethical issues surrounding the practice of genetic engineering in reproductive medicine; and understand key terms and concepts related to the science of genetic engineering. The class will need the following: Computer with Internet access (optional but very helpful) Library resources for research Paper, pens, and pencils Copies of Take-Home Activity Sheet: Different Perspectives on Genetic Engineering Begin the lesson by grouping students into pairs. Ask partners to discuss genes and why they are important. Give students five minutes to discuss and write down their ideas. Have a class discussion about genes. Explain that genes are inherited from parents and are important because they determine much about behavioral, mental, and physical traits. Every gene contains a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) code that gives the cell instructions about how to make specific proteins. These proteins form the basis for the structural framework of life.

123. Qbiogene, Inc Assisting international scientific progress towards innovative discoveries by providing cutting edge tools for genetic engineering and recombinant technologies. http://www.qbi.com/

Search Qbiogene/Products: Advanced Search Product News Purify total RNA from soil or soil supernatants using Fastprep Inovative magentic purification products from Bio-Nobile Develop stable cell lines or generate inducible recombinant Hazard Free XTRA-Blue Plus X-Gal/IPTG Solution ... Isis proofreading DNA polymerase Research products for Molecular Biology Purification, PCR, transfection, cloning, gene delivery, expression Probes, labeling kits and reagents for Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) Probes, labeling kits, reagents Custom S e r vices non-GMP;e.g. cloning, library construction, plasmid purification, adenovirus services, protein expression in E. coli

124. Genetech Pages Supports discussions against genetic engineering. http://www.gene.ch/

Biological Russian roulette This site has been established to suppport discussions about genetic engineering and to provide information intelligible to non scientists. At present decisions are being taken which are influencing society and environment worldwide: New crops are being planted and products derived from them are being sold fraudulently (without labels and risk information) on the world market. Huge areas are being invaded by newly designed organisms: organism whose long term effects to eco systems are unknown and which can never be brought back if there are adverse effects. Patent laws are being issued making plants, animals and parts of the human body the property of single persons and companies. The new colonization of the nature and the human body isn't an issue restricted to scientists and multinational companies. Genetech mailing list archives Scope of the search: All lists GenTech GeNet GenPost (german) Genesis (german) Database search for releases of GMO's Genetix Snowball Handbook (Mirror) (Un)subscription to lists Gentechnik in der BRD/Genetic engineering in Germany ... Various links about Gene Technology e-mail to: werner@free.de

125. Genetic Engineering Information regarding genetic engineering and food irradiation, pesticides,genetic engineering and other irradiation information. http://www.pure-food.com/Genetic Engineering.htm

FAQs about Genetic Engineering A. Yes, grafting is an age old practice which is done in order to develop a new variety of a particular fruit or vegetable. However, genetic engineering allows scientists to put fish genes in tomatoes for example, so that tomatoes have a lower freezing point. While this may sound OK, nobody knows what it all means. Can a person allergic to fish become sick or die by eating the tomato? What happens if there is cross-pollination with "normal" plants? Could it be that the "real" plant disappears through accidental cross-pollination? What if the real plant disappears, and the "new" plant cannot survive? What if this happens on a large scale, let's say worldwide. Since the FDA does NOT require safety testing, they are letting the major corporations continue with this grand experiment on the American People. In Europe, many genetically altered food have been banned, and all such foods must be listed on the package label. Effective January 2000, the U.S. EPA has placed new restrictions on the cultivation of genetically altered corn (BT corn) in response to concerns that gene-altered crops may be causing ecological disruptions. One of the concerns is that BT corn may be speeding the evolution of "superbugs" - insects resistant to standard insecticides. In addition, Cornell University scientists presented preliminary evidence from laboratory studies that pollen from BT corn could blow onto milkweed plants and kill Monarch Butterfly caterpillars

126. Welcome To Cloning Around! Cloning Around (c) 1987-2002 David Scott MacLachlan - Cartoons about clones, creatures, critters and mutations who have escaped from a genetic engineering research laboratory, and the slightly mad scientist who created them. By Dave MacLachlan. http://www.CloningAround.com

Cartoons about clones, creatures, monsters and mutations who have escaped from a genetic engineering research laboratory and the Slightly Miffed Scientists who created them. Cloning Around " started life in the late 1980's as your typical "Genetic mutations escape from a college biochemistry laboratory" campus newspaper cartoon strip. It originally followed the standard three or four panel format, but over the years it has since mutated into a single panel cartoon for the most part. Every now and then it regresses to a multiple panel version. The characters aren't based on any particular person, they're just products of an especially fevered imagination. What would start out as random doodles would eventually take on a life of their own, becoming Clyde, Prof. Arnbuckle, The Sock Monster, et al. As you will notice, bad puns run rampant throughout the strip. Guilty as charged - but, I remain unre pun tant ;) If you find that there's a particular cartoon that you truly like, and want a hardcopy version of it for framing, or for using as the centerpiece for a dartboard, please contact me and we can discuss prices. The original versions that I create are done in a higher resolution than the ones that I post on the web, and are much more suitable for printing.

127. International Patenting Trends In Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering by Lawrence M. Rausch. International Patenting Trends in Biotechnologygenetic engineering. The United States is widely considered http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/issuebrf/sib99351.htm

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences NSF 99-351 June 18, 1999 by Lawrence M. Rausch International Patenting Trends in Biotechnology: Genetic Engineering The United States is widely considered the global leader in the biotechnology field and an examination of U.S. patenting in genetic engineering technologies during 1990-94 supports that perception. T International Patenting Activity Tabulated by priority year, this indicator provides a first measure of the extent and growth of each nation’s inventive activity. These patent family counts represent inventions important enough to be patented outside of the country of origin. During the first half of the 1990s, 3,411 international patent families were formed in genetic engineering with priority applications in the six countries examined; the largest increase in number of families was recorded in 1993 ( figure 1 ). Patenting activity in this six-country group accounts for over 85 percent of all families in this technology area. The United States is widely considered the global leader in the biotechnology field, and these data support that perception. The United States is the priority country (that is, the location of first application) for 63 percent of the international patent families examined here; Japan follows with 13 percent, the United Kingdom with 10 percent, and Germany with 7 percent.

128. Totnes Genetix Group Campaign resource site for raising issues about genetic engineering. News of local, national and international biotechnology activity, links, articles and databases. http://www.togg.org.uk/

Totnes Genetix Group last updated 20th August 2003 Welcome to the ToGG website. Here you can find out; who we are what we do and why we do it This site is not updated very often - we prefer doing stuff in the real world. However you can find up-to-date info from the sites link to from our resources pages as well as downloadable leaflets and the Genetix Update You may also find our powerful genetix search facility , a handy tool for researching stuff yourself. If you have any comments or suggestions, please get in touch Sign the Green Glove Pledge today! ToGG who we are what we do why we do it ... search

129. GEO-PIE Project Homepage genetic engineering. Controversial topic. Depending on whom you ask, the technologywill either end world hunger or damage health and environment. http://www.geo-pie.cornell.edu/gmo.html

Genetic Engineering Controversial topic. Depending on whom you ask, the technology will either end world hunger or damage health and environment. Maybe neither... or both? The GEO-PIE Project was developed to create objective educational materials exploring the complex scientific and social issues associated with genetic engineering, to help readers consider those issues for themselves. News and Recent Updates: May 20, 2004 Canadian Canola Farmer Loses Court Battle Against Monsanto The Canadian Supreme Court ruled today that Canadian Canola farmer Percy Schmeiser is guilty of patent infringement by planting Monsanto's genetically engineered canola without purchasing the seed. Schmeiser claimed that the GE canola plants growing in his fields were the result of accidental contamination. Monsanto and ultimately the Canadian courts disagreed. Read more about this story here Please send your comments and suggestions to Page Last Updated: 25 May, 2004

130. Genetic Engineering In Agriculture One subject is the considerations for and against genetic engineering ofour food. This to top. Introduction to genetic engineering. Probably http://members.tripod.com/c_rader0/gemod.htm

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Check out the NEW Hotbot Tell me when this page is updated A Report on Genetically Engineered Crops Revised April 2003 Charles M. Rader This report is about two closely related subjects. One subject is the considerations for and against genetic engineering of our food. This part of the report will quickly reveal my personal bias in favor of engineering, but I have tried to fairly represent the problems as well as the benefits. The other topic is more important. Genetic engineering gets to the very core of how life works and people are inclined to have very strong feelings about it. Because the public knows so very little about science, some opponents of transgenic agriculture have been able to spread misinformation and manipulate public opinion. As Donna Shalala told a group of scientists, speaking about genetic engineering, ``My concern is if we don't have a broadly educated public ... that charlatans out there will be able to play on public fears.'' Exactly that has happened. Almost everything the general public has been told about genetic engineering of food has originated in the deceptive presentations by skilled propagandists.

131. Nffc.net--home biotech issues Farmers Declaration on genetic engineering in Agriculture. Whatmany farmers have found about genetic engineering http://www.nffc.net/bio1.htm

biotech issues farmer's declaration biotech fact sheet Letter to President Clinton on Starlink Farmer to Farmer Campaign on Genetic Engineering commodities task force ... archived newsletters NFFC President: Bill Christison NFFC Executive Director: Katherine Ozer ph (202) 543-5675 fax (202) 543-0978 email: nffc@nffc.net National Family Farm Coalition 110 Maryland Ave., N.E. Suite 307 Washington, DC 20002 biotech issues Farmers' Declaration on Genetic Engineering in Agriculture Because of all the unknowns, we, as farmers, therefore: Demand a suspension of all further environmental releases and government approvals of genetically engineered seeds and agriculture products. Demand an immediate, independent and comprehensive assessment of the social, environmental, health and economic impacts of genetically engineered seeds and agricultural products. Demand a ban on the ownership of all forms of life including a ban on the patenting of seeds, plants, animals, genes and cell lines. Demand that agrarian people who have cultivated and nurtured crops for thousands of years retain control of natural resources and maintain the right to use or reuse any genetic resource.

132. Genetic Engineering Probe Ministries. genetic engineering. Kerby Anderson. Genetic Diseases. So,in this essay we are going to look at the area of genetic engineering. http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/gen-engr.html

Academics Humanities Social Sciences Sciences Theology ... Faculty Offices Departments Current Issues Publications Conferences/Events Apologetics ... What's New Special Interest Past Features Other Sites Help LU About LU ... Feedback Navigation Site Map Site Index Advanced Search Browsing Help ... LU Home LU Updates Receive LU-Announce Probe Ministries Genetic Engineering Kerby Anderson Genetic Diseases The age of genetics has arrived. Society is in the midst of a genetic revolution that some futurists predict will have a greater impact on the culture than the industrial revolution. So, in this essay we are going to look at the area of genetic engineering. The future of genetics, like that of any other technology, offers great promise but also great peril. Nuclear technology has provided nuclear medicine, nuclear energy, and nuclear weapons. Genetic technology offers the promise of a diverse array of good, questionable, and bad technological applications. Christians, therefore, must help shape the ethical foundations of this technology and its future applications. How powerful a technology is genetic engineering? For the first time in human history, it is possible to completely redesign existing organisms, including man, and to direct the genetic and reproductive constitution of every living thing. Scientists are no longer limited to breeding and cross-pollination. Powerful genetic tools allow us to change genetic structure at the microscopic level and bypass the normal processes of reproduction.

133. Wired 8.04: Why The Future Doesn't Need Us. By Bill Joy, chief scientist at Sun Microsystems. Our most powerful 21stcentury technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. Wired magazine http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html

Search: Wired News Animation Wired Magazine HotBot (the Web) Pg 1 of 11 Print email , or fax this article for free. Why the future doesn't need us. Our most powerful 21st-century technologies - robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech - are threatening to make humans an endangered species. By Bill Joy PLUS A Tale of Two Botanies From the moment I became involved in the creation of new technologies, their ethical dimensions have concerned me, but it was only in the autumn of 1998 that I became anxiously aware of how great are the dangers facing us in the 21st century. I can date the onset of my unease to the day I met Ray Kurzweil, the deservedly famous inventor of the first reading machine for the blind and many other amazing things. Ray and I were both speakers at George Gilder's Telecosm conference, and I encountered him by chance in the bar of the hotel after both our sessions were over. I was sitting with John Searle, a Berkeley philosopher who studies consciousness. While we were talking, Ray approached and a conversation began, the subject of which haunts me to this day. I had missed Ray's talk and the subsequent panel that Ray and John had been on, and they now picked right up where they'd left off, with Ray saying that the rate of improvement of technology was going to accelerate and that we were going to become robots or fuse with robots or something like that, and John countering that this couldn't happen, because the robots couldn't be conscious.

134. Food First: Genetic Engineering Home Programs genetic engineering. Food First genetic engineering. genetic engineeringin Agriculture The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives. http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/global/ge/

Search: Home Programs Genetic Engineering Genetic Engineering and Hunger ... Alternatives to Genetic Engineering Food First: Genetic Engineering Challenging BIO 2004 The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) is meeting in San Francisco June 6-9 for their annual trade convention. BIO is the world's largest trade lobbying organization for the biotechnology industry. Active in Washington, D.C. and every state capital, and frequently appearing on local and national media, they are a one-stop-shop for information on the industry for the media, politicians and government regulators. Learn More! Special Report: Voices from the South The Third World Debunks Corporate Myths on Genetically Engineered Crops Food First, together with the Pesticide Action Network, has brought together a range of views from critics of GE food. Read the Report! Independent Science Panel Report on Genetically Modified Food and Crops Based on more than 200 references to primary and secondary sources, the ISP report, The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World , is a complete dossier of evidence on the known problems and hazards of GM crops as well as the manifold benefits of sustainable agriculture. This report comes at a time when governments have failed to conduct adequate health and safety tests. Learn More About this Report Read the full report (PDF, 500kb)

135. Foodfirst.org:Biotechnology Europe. genetic engineering of Food Crops for the Third World An AppropriateResponse to Poverty, Hunger and Lagging Productivity? http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/global/biotech/belgium-gmo.html

Search: Home Programs In Press: Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM - THE IMPACT OF MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Albert Hall, Brussels, May 28-31 2000, Friends of the Earth Europe Genetic Engineering of Food Crops for the Third World: An Appropriate Response to Poverty, Hunger and Lagging Productivity? Peter Rosset, Ph.D. Co-Director Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy 398 60th Street Oakland, CA 94618 USA rosset@foodfirst.org www.foodfirst.org Abstract In this essay I refer primarily to agricultural production of foodstuffs for domestic consumption. When we speak of national markets, we find that small and peasant farmers, despite their disadvantaged position in society, are the primary producers of staple foods, accounting for very high percentages of national production in most third world countries. Their agriculture is complex, diverse and risk prone. This is because they have historically been displaced into marginal zones characterized by broken terrain, slopes, irregular rainfall, little irrigation, and/or low soil fertility; and because they are poor and are victimized by pervasive anti-poor and anti-small farmer biases in national and global economic policies. When transgenic varieties, carrying Bt insect resistance, for example, are "forced" into such cropping systems, the risks are much greater than in green revolution, large, wealthy farmer systems, or farming systems in Northern countries. For example, in the Third World there will typically be more sexually compatible wild relatives of crops present, making pollen transfer to weed populations of insecticidal properties, virus resistance, and other genetically traits more likely, with possible food chain and super-weed consequences. Such farmers are unlikely to plant refuges, making resistance evolution by insects more likely. Horizontal transfer of genetic material is also highly risky in such circumstances.

136. Compassion In World Farming Ordering information for videos about live animal transport, poultry, frog legs, genetic engineering and animal behavior. http://www.ciwf.co.uk/Pubs/Videos/ciwf_videos.htm

Compassion in World Farming Video order form Compassion in World Farming and Compassion in World Farming Trust publish the following videos. Most are short videos, a few minutes long, designed to accompany press releases. We are now making them available to Colleges in response to demand. Please indicate the number of each required and post or fax the form to: Phil Brooke, Education Officer, Compassion in World Farming Trust, 5a Charles Street, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3EH. Fax. 01730 260791. Tel. 01730 268070. Email: ciwftrust@ciwf.co.uk If you are ordering from overseas please contact ciwftrust@ciwf.co.uk to enquire about postage costs. Compassion in World Farming videos Title Length Quantity Cost Campaigning for Compassion (campaigning video) - £5 18 mins Cruel EU Cattle Exports to the Middle East - £5 6 mins 5 mins Battery Hen Investigation - £5 4 mins 5 mins Hens to the slaughter - £5 5 mins 10 mins British Broilers Dying on their Feet(FAUNA/CIWF) - £5 3 mins Some Lie Dying (Compilation of long-distance animal transport footage from several recent CIWF investigations including sheep, pigs, calves, cattle, horses) - £8 14 mins Saving our Bacon - £4 6 mins Warning: most of the above contain graphic footage which some may find upsetting Subtotal Compassion in World Farming Trust and non-CIWF videos Title Length Quantity Cost 19 mins 19 mins Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour: Stimulus Response. Considers intelligence, abilities, needs and behaviour of farm animals - £10

137. GE Alert CCOF Foundation genetic engineeringgenetic engineering. GE Report! Get the GE Report! News from the genetic engineeringFront. Updated quarterly with CCOF Magazine. What is genetic engineering? http://www.canadians.org/ge-alert/

Genetic Engineering Alert (GE Alert) is an independent group of scientists, academics, and agricultural professionals committed to informing Canadians about the implications of agricultural genetic engineering. Enter the GE Alert site. (If a new window does not open within a few seconds, please click here

138. Debunking Myths Article attacking genetic engineering, with references, by E. Ann Clark. http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/research/homepages/eclark/myths.htm

D ebunking the Myths of Genetic Engineering in Field Crops E. Ann Clark Plant Agriculture University of Guelph , Guelph, ON ( e aclark@uoguelph.ca Presented to Alternatives, Kitchener, ON 2 March 99 Genetic engineering (GE) is the splicing of genes from one organism to another, unrelated organism, to combine traits that would otherwise be very unlikely to occur together. Commercial examples often involve genes taken from soil microorganisms and spliced into plant DNA, with about two-thirds of all current commercial applications involving herbicide tolerance. Plants with microbial genes conferring tolerance to herbicides such as Roundup (glyphosate) or Liberty (glufosinate-ammonium) or broxomynil can then be sprayed with these products to control weeds without unduly harming the crops. How genes are spliced into foreign genomes is a complex and technical matter, and as such, can put off people like you and me who are not specialists in the field. But as private citizens, you don't need to concern yourself with the "how" so much as the "why", and I will argue, you who are going to have to live with the ramifications of GE must become more involved and participatory in the current "debate", which is really a non-debate because apart from citizen activists, and consumer and environmental groups, all of the main players - industry, government, and university - are active proponents. Proponents of genetic engineering have made many claims about the benefits of GE. How well do these claims stand up to independent scrutiny? Who is looking at the risk side of the equation? What are they finding, and why have consumers, producers, and policymakers heard so little about the downside of this modern miracle?

139. Ifgene Ifgene, the International Forum for genetic engineering,has been moved to http//www.anth.org/ifgene. ? http://www.peak.org/~armstroj/

If gene, the International Forum for Genetic Engineering, has been moved to: http://www.anth.org/ifgene

140. Agrobacterium Tumefaciens Biology, genetics, and control of crown gall. Incorporates a range of photographs and diagrams and includes a section on genetic engineering. http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/microbes/crown.htm

The Microbial World: Biology and Control of Crown Gall Agrobacterium tumefaciens Produced by Jim Deacon, with assistance of Aline Robertson and Alan Isbister Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, The University of Edinburgh Biology and Control of Crown Gall ( Agrobacterium tumefaciens Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes crown gall disease of a wide range of dicotyledonous (broad-leaved) plants, especially members of the rose family such as apple, pear, peach, cherry, almond, raspberry and roses. A separate strain, termed biovar 3, causes crown gall of grapevine. From photographs supplied by Sharon von Broembsen, Oklahoma State University Figure A . Large gall formed at the base of the stem of a rose bush. Figure B . A series of galls (arrowheads) along a branch of a grapevine. The unique mode of action of A. tumefaciens

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