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EU to let states rule on GM crops
EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops. more
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Scientists develop GM ‘protato’ to feed India’s poorest children
The Indian government raised the global biotechnology stakes yesterday by saying it intended to feed “nutritionally enhanced” GM potatoes to poor children as early as next year. more
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Killer tomatoes attack human diseases
GENETICALLY modified tomatoes containing edible vaccine are to be used to challenge two of the world’s most lethal viruses. more
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Biotech Rice Saga Yields Bushel of Questions for Feds
When the biotech company Bayer CropScience AG requested federal permission in August to market a variety of gene-altered rice, it assured itself a small, unwanted place in history: the first to seek approval for a genetically engineered food that was … Continue reading
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Genetic education: Reflections on Berkeley’s student gene-testing program
An ethical storm hit the University of California, Berkeley, earlier this year after it invited more than 5,000 incoming students to receive a personal genetic analysis of three genes associated with how they metabolize lactose, alcohol and folic acid. more
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Who should decide when care is futile?
Ruben Betancourt died on May 29, 2009. Last week, a New Jersey appellate court declined to rule on the heated dispute that had broken out between his family and a North Jersey hospital over stopping his medical care prior to … Continue reading
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Researchers and clinical trials
“The reporting of harm is as important as the reporting of efficacy in publications of clinical trials,” a group of French researchers wrote in a study being published in Tuesday’s edition of Archives of Internal Medicine. “However, harm is frequently … Continue reading
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Conflicts of interest bedevil psychiatric drug research
Does it matter if most of the experts who are creating definitions of mental disorders, and standards for the best way to treat them, receive money from pharmaceutical companies? Critics such as Cosgrove say there’s a damaging conflict of interest … Continue reading
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After Falling for Fake Study, Review Board Steps Aside
IRBs must sign off on clinical trials before they can go ahead; a major charge they have is to look out for the well-being of trial subjects. Coast “approved our bogus research protocol for human subjects testing after only minor … Continue reading
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Doctor Admits Pain Studies Were Frauds, Hospital Says
In what may be among the longest-running and widest-ranging cases of academic fraud, one of the most prolific researchers in anesthesiology has admitted that he fabricated much of the data underlying his research, said a spokeswoman for the hospital where … Continue reading
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