• USDA Gives Final Approval to GE Sugar Beets

    Updated: 2012-07-26 05:01:18
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 26, 2012) The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced this week that it is formally deregulating a line of sugar beets genetically engineered (GE) to resist applications of the herbicide glyphosate. Developed by chemical and seed giant Monsanto Co., the new sugar beets, referred to [...]

  • Researchers Settle NanoSilver Antimicrobial Mechanism; Low Dose May Enhance Bacteria Resistance

    Updated: 2012-07-18 05:01:20
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 18, 2012) Just as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened the federal docket for the registration review of nanosilver, Rice University researchers settled a long-standing controversy over the mechanism by which silver nanoparticles, the most widely used nanomaterial in the world, kill bacteria. The researchers found that the silver ions, rather [...]

  • Elvis Mice Have Presley's DNA

    Updated: 2012-07-13 05:54:36
    Way cool. Think of the possibilities. As a pop comeback, it's certainly among the more unusual. Royal College of Art graduate student Koby Barhad's project All That I Am features genetically-engineered mice with DNA taken from the hair of Elvis Presley. The aim is to explore a range of philosophical and ethical issues. How about a cat that contains some Marilyn Monroe DNA? The possibilities are endless. Take a small portion of a departed loved one's DNA and get it put into a new puppy. I know what you narcissists are thinking: Put your own DNA into pets and plants. Imagine a pet who has your eye color because it contains your genes for eye pigment control. It seems inevitable...

  • Add a pond to your garden

    Updated: 2012-07-08 15:55:53
    Finding what it is that you like to do, and choosing to take that up as a hobby is very simple to do with so many activities being offered to you for next to no money. Every person has something that they are incredibly good at, or enjoy enough to want to work on to become better at, and because of this is it easy to find and stay with a hobby.

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