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New HIV Microbicide Can Be Produced in Transgenic Plants
in The Biotech Weblog, on May 29, 2009
...ed a new anti-HIV drug as well as a possible means of producing the drug in large quantities using transgenic plants.
In the research paper, Ma and colleagues describe how they combined two protein ...
GIF1 Gene: Key To High-Yield Rice
in The Biotech Weblog, on September 29, 2008
...ain, suggesting that the GIF1 gene does, indeed, control invertase activity. The team then created transgenic lines of rice in which the GIF1 gene is overexpressed and found that, compared with norma...
Tomato: Potential Carrier of Alzheimer's Vaccine?
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 9, 2008
...to-derived toxic protein in a group of 15-month-old mice.
They immunized the mice orally with the transgenic tomato plants once a week for three weeks, and also gave the mice a booster seven weeks af...
Transgenic SunUp Papaya Genome
in The Biotech Weblog, on April 24, 2008
... This week's issue of Nature features the draft genome of the transgenic 'SunUp' Papaya , the first commercial virus-resistant transgenic fruit tree to be sequenced. From Nature New...
Profitability of Transgenic Cotton
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 19, 2008
...per published in the January-February 2008 issue of Agronomy Journal explores the profitability of transgenic cotton cultivars with pest -managing traits.
Field experiments were conducted to c...
Bt Maize More Susceptible to Aphids
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 30, 2007
... Bt maize are more susceptible to aphids .
Within five out of six pairs that were evaluated, transgenic maize lines were significantly more susceptible to aphids than their near-isogenic equiva...
Genetically Modified Aluminum-Tolerant Sorghum
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 29, 2007
...ns are present in the surrounding soil.
The researchers have now used the sorghum gene to engineer transgenic aluminum-tolerant Arabidopsis thaliana (a small mustard plant used in plant research beca...
Transgenic Pigs Pave Way to Alzheimer's Disease Breakthrough
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 3, 2007
...n and the continuous expansion of the pharmaceutical industry in Denmark, the ability to produce transgenic pig models for human diseases is a major prerequisite for future progress in this area.
Th...
Transgenic Mushrooms as Drug Biofactories
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 25, 2007
...isporus -- the button variety of mushroom, which is the predominant edible species worldwide.
The transgenic mushrooms can then be used as factories for the production of therapeutic proteins, such ...
Building a Better Cow
in Well Woman Blog, on May 29, 2007
...g to improve the cow. DNA News tells us:
Argentine scientists have successfully produce a transgenic cow that carries in its chromosomes the human gene of insulin. According to the experts, ...
Blocking Apo E and Amyloid Beta Interaction to Target Alzheimer's Disease
in Straightfromthedoc, on December 23, 2006
... Academy of Sciences .
Read more at NYU Med News .
[In photo: A brain slice from an 18-month-old transgenic mouse showing deposits of amyloid (yellow arrowhead) in brain tissue and in blood vessels...
Lysozyme- Rich Milk From Transgenic Goats
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 4, 2006
...ea in children, there have been attempts to manufacture these enzymes first in rice , and now, in transgenic goats . Feeding trials using lysozyme-containing goat's milk to young pigs showed tha...
Insulin Production From Transgenic Safflower
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 19, 2006
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SemBioSys Genetics Inc. announce success in producing human insulin in transgenic safflower, exceeding its target and achieving accumulation levels of 1.2 percent of total seed protein. T...
Origen To Produce Therapeutics in Genetically Engineered Chickens
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 9, 2006
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Spurred by European regulators' approval of the production of an anti-clotting agent in transgenic goats , other firms are tailgating. California-based Origen Therapeutics have been develop...
EMEA Approves First Therapeutic Produced in Transgenic Goat
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 7, 2006
...This is an important milestone, marking the approval of the first recombinant drug produced in a transgenic animal . More details from GTC Biotherapeutics ' press release ....
Genetically Engineered Papaya Ring Spot Virus(PRSV)-Resistant Papaya
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 22, 2006
... of Agriculture's Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center in Hilo, Hawaii-- reviewed how the transgenic papaya was successfully developed, deregulated and commercialized in Hawaii when he spoke...
natural defense mechanism for AD, discovered
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 20, 2006
... another type of microglia: those derived from bone marrow stem cells.
The tests conducted with transgenic mouse models of AD showed that bone marrow-derived microglia infiltrate amyloid plaques and...
Transgenic Tomatoes Resistant to Drought
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 16, 2005
Based on a technique first used in Arabidopsis , scientists from the Texas A&M University's Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center and Baylor's College of Medicine were able to engineer a drought-resistant tomato by making it over-express the AVP1 gene. This resulted to plan...
The Debate On Genetically Modified Crops Continues
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 25, 2005
...and , environmentalists want to impose a moratorium as well.
...there is no evidence to date that transgenic products are a successful way of combating hunger or that there is a demand for them. ...
Genetically Modified Soy in Russia
in The Biotech Weblog, on November 2, 2005
...he letter also notes that the Russian food market is flooded with imported genetically modified and transgenic products that are not subject to any state control .
"These products are dangerous...
AtPep1 regulates pathogen defense in Arabidopsis
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 20, 2005
...haliana . Pep1 appears to act like a hormone, expressed at the first sign of infection or wounding. transgenic plants designed to constitutively over-express Pep1 were found to be more resistant towar...