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...clients a night. "One of them would hit me, then give me something to wipe my tears with and lead me across the floor to a client, smiling," Tatiana recalls. "It was impossible to disobey." Under constant supervision, even in the bathroom, she once asked a foreign client, a Swiss consultant, for help. The man offered the bar owner $5,000 for Tatiana's freedom but was rebuffed. For that effort she was severely beaten...
...imagining a golden rice was one thing, Potrykus found, and bringing one into existence quite another. Year after year, he and his colleagues ran into unexpected obstacles, beginning with the finicky growing habits of the rice they had transplanted to a greenhouse near the foothills of the Swiss Alps. And 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...
...genetic material bound for the International Research for Rice Institute, IRRI for short. The goal of IRRI scientists will be to develop a golden tropical rice, based on the techniques Potrykus has used for his temperate rice variety. And this is only the first step. Two private companies?Swiss-based Syngenta and Myriad Genetics of Salt Lake City in the U.S.?revealed last week that they have mapped the entire rice genome, paving the way for other dramatic breakthroughs. Years of lab work on a viable genetically modified (GM) rice variety are still needed, but scientists in Asia will undoubtedly...
...late 1980s, after he ?became a full professor of plant science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Ingo Potrykus started to think about using genetic engineering to improve the nutritional qualities of rice. Of some 3 billion people who depend on rice as their major staple, around 10% risk some degree of vitamin-A deficiency and the health problems that result. The problem interested Potrykus for a number of reasons. For starters, he was attracted by the scientific challenge of transferring not just a single gene, as many had already done, but a group of genes that represented...
...Freiburg's Peter Beyer, an expert on the beta-carotene pathway in daffodils. They decided to combine their expertise. In 1993, with some $100,000 in seed money from the Rockefeller Foundation, Potrykus and Beyer launched what turned into a seven-year, $2.6 million project, backed by the Swiss government and the European Union. "I was in a privileged situation," reflects Potrykus, "because I was able to operate without industrial support. Only in that situation can you think of giving away your work for free...