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Though it sounds a lot like Frankenfood, scientists note that in vitro tissue engineering is not the same as genetic engineering, a common misconception. "We use natural cells from natural animals," says Dr. Vladimir Mironov, a tissue engineer and assistant professor at the Medical University of South Carolina. "We don't change Mother Nature, we just try to imitate it." But there's always room for improvement - scientists can design meat, for example, that is high in healthy fats, such as omega 3s and 6s. Creating the meat in a lab also decreases its exposure to bacteria and disease, which...
...average American consumer what she thinks of genetically modified foods, and she?ll probably wrinkle her nose in distaste, asking, "Do we really want to risk eating Frankenfood? Is it worth...
...over which countries should next get into nato. There's a bumper crop of noisy trade issues too, and all of them tread on sensitive domestic toes: bananas, R and D subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, the genetically modified grub Americans are happy to swallow but Europeans denounce as "Frankenfood...
...when success finally came in early 1999, Potrykus, 65 and about to retire as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, faced even more formidable challenges. The golden rice that he and his colleagues developed is a product of genetic engineering, what opponents call Frankenfood. As such, it was entangled in a web of hopes and fears and political baggage, not to mention a fistful of iron-clad patents...
...first recall of what the industry calls GM food--and others call Frankenfood. Critics have long warned that once bioengineered genes get into any part of the food chains there's no telling when they'll turn up on our plates. Sure enough, early last week Genetically Engineered Food Alert, a consumer and environmental group, reported that traces of DNA from GM corn not approved for human consumption had been discovered in Taco Bell's tacos. The corn, known as StarLink, contains a gene from a bacterium that makes the corn deadly to corn borers but not to cows...