Tag: biotech
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Inside the Military’s New Office for Cyborgs
from stratrisks.com: The ability to link human brains to machines, create new life forms and build Star Trek-style disease detectors will be the focus of a new Defense Department office soon. The new office, named the Biological Technology Office, or BTO, will serve as a clearinghouse for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, programs…
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‘Neural dust’ brain implants could revolutionize brain-machine interfaces and allow large-scale data recording
from StratRisks.com: In a potential neuroscience breakthrough, University of California Berkeley scientists have proposed a system that allows for thousands of ultra-tiny “neural dust” chips to be inserted into the brain to monitor neural signals at high resolution and communicate data highly efficiently via ultrasound. The neural dust design promises to overcome a serious limitation…
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GMO Eggplant Found to be Unsafe for Human Consumption, Environment
from GlobalResearch.ca: Field trials of genetically-modified (GM) Bt eggplant, also known as Bt talong, have officially ceased in the Philippines following a major ruling by the nation’s Court of Appeals. Representing a massive victory for food sovereignty, the Court found that Bt talong is a monumental threat to both environmental and human health, and has…
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Fight to Patent Human Genes Heard by Supreme Court
from activistpost.com: On Monday, the Supreme Court heard Myriad Genetics plead their case on why they want to patent human genes. According to the biotech company, it discovered the gene linked to higher risks in breast and ovarian cancer and plans to further its research. Related: Genetics have little influence over health, top stem cell…
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Canadian Scientists Charged With Smuggling Dangerous Pathogens From China
Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs.
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Surprised? Monsanto Openly Wrote Own Monsanto Protection Act
How could a major corporation write its own laws and regulations, you ask?
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New Zealand: Possible GM Outbreak at Lincoln University Investigated
The Government is investigating a potential outbreak of genetically modified fungus at Lincoln University.
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US Farmers Flood Fields With Dangerous Poison to Fight Monsanto Superweeds
You’re a farmer. Season after season, you watch your fields being taken over by Monsanto superweeds, which are resistant to the herbicide Roundup. What are you going to do? You’re locked in.
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Regulators Discover Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
EFSA has belatedly discovered that the most common genetic regulatory sequence in commercial GMOs also encodes a significant fragment of a viral gene.
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Debunking GE Myths. Again.
Mark Lynas gave a long mea culpa speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, in which he apologized to the world for tearing up GE crops back in the day, and for what he described as his “anti-science environmentalism.”
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Father-Daughter Duo Have World’s First Brain-To-Brain ‘Telepathic’ Conversation
It should be fairly obvious why, all technological considerations aside, there has been much more research into letting machines extract our thoughts, rather than insert them.
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The HIV Virus: A Possible Cure for Leukemia?
The experimental technique relies on help from a disabled form of HIV because the virus is adept at carrying genetic material into T-cells so they’re able to kill off cancer cells.
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YES ON 37 REFUSES TO CHALLENGE VOTE FRAUD!
from nomorefakenews.com: Lying down on the road in front of a truck isn’t the best way to end a political campaign, but that’s what the YES ON 37 forces are doing. In an email sent out on Nov. 9, the PR people for 37 wrote: “They [the leaders of YES ON 37] assume these [millions…
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#VIDEO Future organic farmer tells it like it is
from therealfoodchannel.com: “We can either pay the farmer or we can pay the hospital.” True words from Birke Baehr, who was 11 years old when he gave this Tedx talk in August, 2010. This is our next generation! Birke is also the author of “Birke on the Farm: The Story of a Boy’s Search for…
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David vs. Monsanto: How a Lone Farmer Prevailed
It all began in 1998, at which time Schmeiser had grown canola on his farm for 40 years.