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You hinted that opposition to modified foods is based largely on ignorance. Why, then, do prominent scientists raise alarms? The issue is far larger than simply allowing or not allowing GM foods. It is about control of the world's seeds and the distribution of wealth. Nature has already blessed...
Back in the 1970s, most dermatologists believed your genes determined how well your skin aged. But that was before researchers learned how many dangerous chemicals called free radicals are released in the skin when a person smokes or spends too much time in the sun. Now they estimate that as...
GENE THERAPY WITH A TWIST Scientists have used a genetically modified cold virus, Onyx-015, to battle head and neck cancer. While traditional gene therapy aims to replace defective genes, Onyx-015 trades on the genetic difference between cancerous and normal cells to hunt and kill only the cancer. In...
"Oncomice," which have genes that make them prone to cancer, won the first ever American patent for an animal in 1988, but the University has been fighting for fifteen years to gain similar protection in Canada.
The University claims as intellectual property any mammal genetically altered to express oncogenes, the genes that cause cancer. Harvard has licensed this technology to Delaware chemical giant DuPont, Inc. which sublicenses the rights around the world. As part of the license agreement, DuPont pays the massive legal bills that have...