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1. First direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer ...: (2002); 1 October 2002 FIRST DIRECT EVIDENCE OF HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER http://www.nature.com/nsu/020923/020923-11.html Genes caught skipping from bacteria to beetle Tokyo team claims first direct evidence ...; Created on 01 October 2002
2. Bitter Harvest/Fields of Gold and horizontal gene transfer ...: (2002); 1. Bitter Harvest - programme details 2. Denial Continues over Horizontal Gene Transfer - ISIS *** 1. Bitter Harvest - programme details Bitter Harvest is a series of 3 programmes that will go out ...; Created on 07 June 2002
3. Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens - II ...: (2001); Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens - II ISIS Report - May 4, 2001 The evidence for horizontal gene transfer is accumulating. Mae-Wan Ho reviews a selection of recent scientific papers. Survival of free ...; Created on 08 May 2001
4. Review 589: De-Extinction, Designer Babies, Gene Drives and More: (News review); ... hindering assessment and monitoring of their survival following intended or accidental release. Bacteria and microalgae also readily exchange DNA via horizontal gene transfer, raising the risk of sprea ...; Created on 19 August 2025
5. Review 569 - GMOs in General: (News review); ... n the intestinal microbiome and public health GMO microorganisms' horizontal gene exchanges might induce multiple human diseases and current regulations do not protect public health, according to sc ...; Created on 29 March 2024
6. Why claims that gene editing doesn’t involve insertion of foreign genes or DNA are false: (2022); ... 25. Ono R et al (2019). Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Communications Biology 2:57. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0300-2 26. ...; Created on 11 December 2022
7. Herbicides used with GM crops increase antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil: (2021); ... This pattern of elevated resistance could be explained by two potential underlying mechanisms: selection for de novo antibiotic resistance and mobilization of ARGs via horizontal gene transfer. As glyphosate ...; Created on 12 July 2021
8. GMWatch mythbuster exposes UK government misinformation on gene editing: (2021); ... 28/16 4. Ono R, Yasuhiko Y, Aisaki K, Kitajima S, Kanno J, Hirabayashi Y. Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Commun Biol. 2019;2(1 ...; Created on 15 February 2021
9. Science supports need to subject gene-edited plants and animals to strict safety assessments: (2019); ... 19. Peer-reviewed papers on gene-edited mice * Ono R et al (2019). Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Communications Biology 2: 57 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0 ...; Created on 19 November 2019
10. An emerging era of environmental genetic engineering: (2019); ... gene drive organisms (GDOs), horizontal environmental genetic alteration agents (HEGAAs) that deliver viruses carrying genome editing machinery directly to crop fields, the delivery of genome editing machinery ...; Created on 01 November 2019
11. Gene editing unintentionally adds bovine DNA, goat DNA, and bacterial DNA, mouse researchers find: (2019); ... gst the DNA sequences inserted into the mouse genome were bovine and goat retrotransposons (jumping genes) and mouse retrovirus DNA (HIV is a retrovirus). Thus gene-editing is a potential mechanism for horizo ...; Created on 24 September 2019
12. Food miRNA molecules can affect gene expression: (2019); ... of food-born DNA integrating into the genome of the consumer and of horizontal transfer of GM crop DNA into gut-bacteria. We find no evidence that transgenes in GM crop-derived foods have a greater propensity ...; Created on 18 January 2019
13. “New Breeding Techniques” and synthetic biology - genetic engineering by another name: (2017); ... They exchange, share and distribute information widely via horizontal gene transfer, even involving completely unrelated micro-organisms, and they multiply much faster than multicellular organisms. Th ...; Created on 05 April 2017
14. Sweet potato genetically engineered by nature – or extreme spin?: (2015); ... c engineering, this same bacterium is used to ferry the GM gene (transgene) into the host plant. The study shows that the Agrobacterium genes got into the sweet potato by natural horizontal gene transf ...; Created on 06 May 2015
15. Genetic modification in Flanders: The appeal of the Wetteren 11: (2014); ... g to an organised criminal gang. As one of the defence lawyers gently ironized in court, this is an unlikely charge to bring against a group of leftist/anarchist activists with horizontal and participato ...; Created on 03 November 2014
16. Muzzled by Monsanto over gene-silencing technology: (2014); ... vels of plant miR- NAs in the blood of healthy athletes who were fed RNA-laden fruit. The team also failed to find RNA traces in mice or bees. “We conclude that horizontal delivery of microRNAs via ty ...; Created on 05 April 2014
17. ERMA swallowed a lot of genetic bull from AgResearch: (2011); ... by ERMA to monitor soil microorganisms for the uptake of transgenes by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) at the offal pits where genetically engineered (GE) cattle were disposed. (2) "If AgResearch detecte ...; Created on 05 May 2011
18. Ignacio Chapela on new landmark study on gene leakage: (2010); 1.Horizontal gene transfer at plant-surface sites - comment by Ignacio Chapela 2.Bacteria spread genes to fungi on plants 3.Abstract: Investigating Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Verticillium ...; Created on 29 October 2010
19. Genetically Engineered Organisms, Are They Safe?: (2007); ... somewhat similar consequences to the above paragraph but the mechanism of mutation spread may be through non-traditional routes among different species (horizontal gene transfer). The mechanism may be b ...; Created on 15 November 2007
20. Gene therapy safety in question again: (2007); Created on 30 July 2007

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