- 21. Genetically Engineered Foods May Cause Rising Food Allergies
- (2007)
- ... ished and the recommended additional tests were not conducted. If this protein in GM soybeans is causing allergies, then the situation may be made much worse by something called horizontal gene transfer ...
- Created on 19 May 2007
- 22. Say "No" To India's Crops Being Genetically Engineered
- (2007)
- India's governing politicians are in bed with Bush and Monsanto. Please spread the word far and wide about this important petition, and go and sign it at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/no-to-indias-crops-being-genetically-engineered.html ...
- Created on 03 January 2007
- 23. Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research
- (2006)
- ... are issues of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)[xlvi], the new generations of multitransgenic GEOs for pharmaceutical and industrial purposes[xlvii], safety questions related to GE vaccines[xlviii], the new ...
- Created on 10 November 2006
- 24. Genetic Engineering and Omitted Health Research: Still No Answers to Ageing Questions (2/11/2006)
- (2006)
- ... are issues of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)[xlvi], the new generations of multitransgenic GEOs for pharmaceutical and industrial purposes[xlvii], safety questions related to GE vaccines[xlviii], the new ...
- Created on 02 November 2006
- 25. Disease-resistant genetically engineered crops may make humans (and plants) more vulnerable to viruses (6/7/2006)
- (2006)
- ... to the organism that picked it up." Consider, for example, the possibility that viral transgenes might transfer into the DNA of gut microorganisms. This type of "horizontal gene transfer" from GM food ...
- Created on 06 July 2006
- 26. Gene Transfer Found in Soil at GM Cattle Site
- (2005)
- ... tests have found that 'horizontal gene transfer' has occurred with soil micro-organisms in land where transgeneic cattle have been grazing. The discovery - of 'HGT'- once claimed by some scientists to ...
- Created on 03 September 2005
- 27. Ampicillin threat leads to wider transgene concern
- (2005)
- This letter to the journal Nature outlines the safety risk of antibiotic resistance due to horizontal gene transfer from GMOs and points out that this is not the only risk that needs to be urgently addressed ...
- Created on 03 June 2005
- 28. Genetically Modifying Science
- (2003)
- ... y enough. He reminds the government of the well-known risks of genetic engineering: the random insertion of foreign genes out of context with the host genome, horizontal transfer of inserted genes that ...
- Created on 29 June 2003
- 29. Genetically engineered food aid - Briefing by Tewolde Egziabher
- (2003)
- ... ment. McGraw-Hill: New York, give a detailed review of horizontal gene transfer. A more recent but not detailed treatment can be found in: National Research Council, 2002, Environmental Effects of T ...
- Created on 21 January 2003
- 30. The genetics revolution has failed to deliver
- (2002)
- ... -species aspect of biotechnology, a horizontal gene exchange, is a whole new ball game. Only through GE can a gene from a soil bacterium that makes a toxin become part of a corn plant's DNA. Now this e ...
- Created on 30 September 2002
- 31. EPA may slap biotech wrists... possibly/Pharmacia spins off Monsanto/Bayer job cuts/Synthesis-Regeneration
- (2002)
- ... under corporate pressure. 37 What Lurks Behind Herbicide-Tolerant Rape? Mae-Wan Ho notes dangers of horizontal gene transfer. 39 Death in the Air George Glasser details health disaster ...
- Created on 14 August 2002
- 32. The maize gene war - ISIS
- (2002)
- ... why pro-GE attackers are denigrating the use of PCR. Similar battles have been fought by industry supporters over other forms of pollution. --- ISIS: Who's Afraid of Horizontal Gene Transfer? ******************************** ...
- Created on 06 March 2002
- 33. Genetix Update - Issue 20 Winter 2001
- (2001)
- ... ey were preventing imminent pollen pollution and horizontal gene transfer into the soil and food chains. Jim said "If you do all other methods of campaigning first there's no reason why you shouldn't ...
- Created on 17 December 2001
- 34. Open Letter to New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering
- (2001)
- ... g and replanting seeds. Many are currently field tested and commercially grown as 'male sterile' crops. Not only are the constructs more complicated and hence more unstable and prone to horizontal gene transf ...
- Created on 14 August 2001
- 35. Report challenges UN on genetic engineering
- (2001)
- ... t refuges, making resistance evolution by insects more likely. ðHorizontal transfer of genetic material is also highly risky in such circumstances. The associated risks of super-weeds, new crop varie ...
- Created on 09 July 2001
- 36. Genetic engineering superviruses - ISIS report
- (2001)
- ... ourse of apparently innocent genetic engineering experiments. Genetic engineering involves facilitating horizontal transfer and rampant recombination of genetic material across species barriers, precise ...
- Created on 06 March 2001
- 37. How genetic engineering differs from conventional breeding
- (2001)
- ... horizontal gene transfer Michael K. Hansen, Ph.D. Research Associate Consumer Policy Institute/Consumers Union January, 2000 http://www.biotech-info.net/wide_crosses.html Genetic engineering is not just ...
- Created on 23 February 2001
- 38. Great Xmas reading: The case against genetically engineered food
- (2000)
- ... *horizontal gene transfer *selling the benefits *the truth about the claimed agronomic "benefits" *the truth about the claimed environmental "benefits" *feeding the world? *golden rice *breeding crops w ...
- Created on 23 December 2000
- 39. First genetics trial since Greenpeace victory
- (2000)
- ... Magna. This would occur both through cross-pollination (had the crop been allowed to flower) and through a process called Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT). They will argue that HGT occurs frequently wit ...
- Created on 06 November 2000
- 40. GMO risk assessment – a "fact-free" exercise
- (2023)
- ... sed to dioxins. With GMOs, there are several potential areas of risk, including genetic instability, horizontal gene transfer (e.g. antibiotic resistance genes – frequently used in genetic engineering – tr ...
- Created on 31 May 2023