tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post5101007489540512191..comments2024-03-01T01:30:03.255-07:00Comments on Genetic Jungle: Good science, bad science, and the battle for biotech cropsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16532403180123519635noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-57680790845136560812021-07-20T02:23:10.175-06:002021-07-20T02:23:10.175-06:00Wonderful blog! I found it while searching on Yaho...Wonderful blog! I found it while searching on Yahoo News. Do you have any suggestions on how to get listed in Yahoo News? I’ve been trying for a while but I never seem to get there! Cheers <a href="https://evo-bio.com" rel="nofollow">science blog</a><br />UMAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14264364461738463678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-55762319257030510932020-09-21T23:16:56.305-06:002020-09-21T23:16:56.305-06:00Thank you for sharing this amazing and cool blog p...Thank you for sharing this amazing and cool blog post! 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Biotechnology is a field which grows very fast. People are aware of this topic. Science knowledge is must for the Students. At least basic knowledge is must for everyone. People should know about some interesting facts about science. Bringing the science subject to life for the students is one challenge that is shared by teachers who publish insightful and amazing science education blogs. From all over the world.Rum Tanhttps://smiletutor.sg/7-of-the-best-science-blogs-for-students-and-teachers/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-60539644537291112902013-10-29T06:27:09.929-06:002013-10-29T06:27:09.929-06:00@Anonymous: "of the 26 strains of MON810 subm...@Anonymous: "of the 26 strains of MON810 submitted to the EU for approval, 2 (nearly 8%) were rejected because tests showed that they didn't work as advertised"...so the system works, you're saying?<br /><br />And: "researchers found the presence of a kknown allergen in an MON810 cultivar that wasn't present in the near-isogenic strain": known allergen, or predicted allergen - as in, a protein or substance PREDICTED to POSSIBLY be allergenic by bioinformatic tools? There is a substantial difference....Ed Rybickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232100263025144454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-60782106549284327562013-10-29T06:22:05.826-06:002013-10-29T06:22:05.826-06:00Excellent, Leon! Very detailed, very rational - a...Excellent, Leon! Very detailed, very rational - and evidence-based.<br /><br />As for Anthony Sebastian's comment: not chemical compounds, so much as proteins - and probably not, given that Bt toxin used to be sprayed around freely; the bacteria that make things like the glyphosate resistance gene are in the environment; many other newer recombinant proteins are derived from viruses or other plants that are also common.<br /><br />And I will point out that, until 100 000 years ago, our "hominim lineage" had been exposed to NOTHING outside of Africa - and in fact has only been exposed to things like maize, potatoes, cassava and tomatoes for the last 13 000 years or so. SO the catalogue of "things our lineage has not been exposed to" would include...well, pretty much everything??Ed Rybickihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232100263025144454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-66202249666648012102013-07-23T03:33:32.603-06:002013-07-23T03:33:32.603-06:00excellent post thank for Biotechnology Courses in ...excellent post thank for <a href="http://www.dipsindia.in/medical-courses.html" rel="nofollow">Biotechnology Courses in Delhi</a> delivering such and informative blogDisha Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538878003387319107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-30618454119743667282013-07-15T18:01:06.535-06:002013-07-15T18:01:06.535-06:00Do some GM foods have new chemical compounds in th...Do some GM foods have new chemical compounds in them, compounds that our hominim lineage has never been exposed to?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10439621516963405784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-4271517819237351842013-07-06T22:46:39.563-06:002013-07-06T22:46:39.563-06:00The entire scientific community appears to be over...The entire scientific community appears to be oversimplifying the issues about GMOs.<br /><br />For example, how many who support the "scientific consensus" are aware that of the 26 strains of MON810 submitted to the EU for approval, 2 (nearly 8%) were rejected because tests showed that they didn't work as advertised?<br /><br />At some point, the strains had mutated so that the desired gene had either become undetectable, or the desired protein was no longer being expressed? Monsanto was still selling the seeds for those two strains in the USA because they had never bothered to check to see if their product was still "working as advertised."<br /><br />5 years ago, researchers found the presence of a kknown allergen in an MON810 cultivar that wasn't present in the near-isogenic strain, despite both crops being raised in an identical controlled environment. The test used is NOT a test normally used for the testing of GMOs before they receive approval from the FDA, but I know of no action taken to determine if the present of the presence of the unexpected allergen in the GMO variety should trigger the official FDA response to GMOs found to contain allergens.<br /><br />GMO rodent toxicity testing in the EU is done using a protocol designed to detect differences between the GMO strain and the near-isogenic strain of 1 standard deviation of effect size, about 80% of the time. However, a clause inserted in the EU protocols allows Monsanto to perform a further test against an "auxiliary control group" (6 of them in fact) and neglect to report differences between experimental and control groups as long as the differences are within 2 standard deviations of the mean of the pooled "auxiliary groups," <br /><br />This flies in the face of standard toxicological testing practices, which say that any detected differences, no matter how large or small, must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis with respect to their toxicological significance, and that just as a large effect might be meaningless, so a small effect might be very important.<br /><br />None of these facts may mean anything significant about the actual safety of any existing GMO, but they show a clear pattern of trying to make sure that all possible GMOs make it to market, which flies in the face of scientific philosophy, which concerns itself with facts, not politically or economically expedient strategies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17953699.post-73444411990551966792013-07-05T16:31:11.289-06:002013-07-05T16:31:11.289-06:00Great piece... I liked it even before I found the ...Great piece... I liked it even before I found the reference to my "Science Is Laughing" post, which surprised me. Thanks for the mention! With your permission, I'd love to post this as a guest post on Sleuth4Health. <br /><br />Nice one!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987717021976824881noreply@blogger.com