In an article published in the Biotechnology Journal in March this year, scientists from the University of São Paulo (USP), the University of Northern Paraná (UNOPAR), and the University of Illinois, ...

OPINION:THE CAPACITY of new language to confuse comes into sharp focus in the GM crops debate. Their defining feature is that they contain a gene transferred from another species by genetic ...

Transgene instability has been known at least since 1994 [1] (reviewed in Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare, p.140), though it is seldom, if ever, reported in the popular media. Transgenes (the ...

During the transformation process that creates the GMO, the transgenic construct tends to undergo deletions, duplications, and rearrangements, integrating at unpredictable sites in the host cell ...