Word: speciesism
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Having created golden rice, Potrykus wanted to make sure it reached those for whom it was intended: malnourished children of the developing world. And that, he knew, was not likely to be easy. Why? Because in addition to a full complement of genes from Oryza sativa--the Latin name for...
For about a year now--ever since Potrykus and his chief collaborator, Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg in Germany, announced their achievement--their golden grain has illuminated an increasingly polarized public debate. At issue is the question of what genetically engineered crops represent. Are they, as their proponents...
DIED. JOHN ASPINALL, 74, British gambler and gadfly who siphoned the profits from his gaming tables to create two wildlife parks in Kent dedicated to the conservation and breeding of tigers, elephants, gorillas and other endangered species; of cancer; in London. He believed in personally interacting with the animals, a...
FROM THE HATCHERY You may never have heard of a nude mouse, but infertile women may come to love them. Canadian doctors have taken tiny bits of a young woman's frozen ovarian tissue and transplanted them to the back muscles of a fur-free, or "nude," mouse (the lab...
The big question is whether, with the publicly funded project's data online, there will be a market for Celera's products. Venter says yes. He'll be offering sophisticated, contamination-free, gilt-edged data, he explains, that include the comparative genomes of other species and the genetics of specific...