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	Soy Info Online!
		Because it was not the lectin in the potatoes, but the genetic manipulation process itself which led to toxicity, similar results might be seen in animals or humans fed genetically-manipulated soy, canola, and corn over a long period of time (i.e., years or decades).
		The same hazards may or may not be found in genetically manipulated soy, canola, etc. It is prudent to assume that all genetically manipulated ingredients have the same slow toxic effects until long-term, independent research can be conducted on each genetically manipulated crop.
		There is a very serious danger of pollen from these manipulated crops infecting normal crops of the same species or of different species leading to the unintentional ingestion of drugs by the general population.
	www.soyinfo.com /haz/gehaz.shtml (4086 words)

	Genetic engineering
		Genetic engineering is inherently hazardous, because it depends on designing artificial vectors to cross all species barriers, greatly increasing the potential for generating new viral and bacterial pathogens by horizontal gene transfer and recombination.
		This very danger persuaded the first genetic engineers to declare a moratorium on their own work in 1975; but pressures to go ahead with commercial exploitation led to regulatory guidelines that were drawn up largely on the basis of assumptions.
		Genetic tests are actually poor predictors for the condition of any individual; the same gene will have different effects from individual to individual because their other genes are different.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/DP5/genetic.htm (3473 words)

	Council for Responsible Genetics
		As genetic tests become simpler to administer and their use expands, a growing number of individuals are being stigmatized on the basis of their genetic makeup.
		Meanwhile the exaggerated emphasis on genetic diagnoses is not without its dangers because it draws attention away from the social measures that are needed in order to ameliorate most diseases, including equitable access to health care.
		Recent developments in human genetic science and the technology of testing are not identifying new costly diseases that were not previously accounted for by the insurance industry’s actuarial data.
	www.gene-watch.org /programs/privacy/genetic-disc-position.html (2654 words)

	GENETIC ENGINEERING
		Genetic engineering is the process of taking genes and segments of DNA from one species and putting them into another species, thus breaking the species barrier and artificially modifying the DNA of various species.
		Genetic manipulation is most commonly used to transfer desirable qualities from one organism to another to improve the ability of other species to serve humankind.
		The first field test of these genetically modified bacteria was conducted in 1987, on a plot of strawberry plants, and similar experiments on potatoes showed that the gene-spliced bacteria were effective in establishing themselves on the plants and, later in the season, in preventing ice formation during periods of light frost (Levine).
	www.bucconeer.worldcon.org /contest/2002e_5.htm (2946 words)

	Genetic engineering: what is genetic engineering?
		Genetic engineering is the alteration of genetic code by artificial means, and is therefore different from traditional selective breeding.
		Genetic engineering works because there is one language of life: human genes work in bacteria, monkey genes work in mice and earthworms.
		Genetic engineering in its fullest form would result in the child produced having unique genes - as a result of laboratory interference, and therefore the child will not be an identikit twin.
	www.globalchange.com /geneticengin.htm (750 words)

	Vegetarian News - Genetic Engineering: Can it be all that bad ? Ask the animals !
		Genetically manipulating plants to make them more pesticide-resistant is definitely not an ecologically meaningful way to produce healthy food.
		But genetically interfering with our food to enhance their nutritional value without endangering our health and to reduce or eliminate the dependence on pesticides and fertilizers may very well be acceptable.
		If genetic engineering is here to stay, we might be better off making sure that more and more members of the scientific community will be of the Goldman-type, which is to say, realistically, ethically and ecologically conscious vegetarian, near-vegan, and even better vegans.
	www.ivu.org /news/aug99/genetic.html (1095 words)

	ADCHALLENGES FOR Genetic Manipulation in Animals
		DNA microinjection is an inefficient and highly random vehicle for genetic manipulation, and may be complicated by transgene silencing, inappropriate transgene expression, and tissue variegation (8).
		Genetic manipulation in chickens is much more technically complex due to the inaccessibility of the earliest stages of embryo development (17).
		While genetically manipulated nuclei have already been used for nuclear transfer (26), the true test of the combined technology will be the generation of animals with complex deletions and/or additions.
	www.atp.nist.gov /atc/atc_pap.htm (2099 words)

	Geneinfo - Genetic engineering and Gene therapy
		Genetic knowledge is indeed rapidly expanding, but most research centers around understanding the content and function of the human genome; less applies to the manipulation of human genetic material.
		The basic strategy is to place the new genetic material (for example, a gene for a new desired function) into the cell, and use the cell's natural machinery to integrate this material into the genome.
		Genetic manipulation of some laboratory animals, such as flies and mice, is also routinely used in research.
	www.geocities.com /geneinfo/facts/engineerfr.html (1178 words)

	Gazizza: Genetic Manipulation Archives
		I discussed a while ago about the possibility of genetic manipulation in the womb to modify genes linked to same-sex attractions.
		Well, now I've come across an article quoting people arguing in favor of genetic manipulation to intentionally give unborn children disabilities.
		But not everyone wants what seemed to be the three genetic engineering options: refrain and let nature take her course, attempt to repair genetic diseases but otherwise let well enough alone, or select positive qualities in children.
	www.gazizza.net /abortion/genetic_manipulation (1115 words)

	Plant-Derived Molecules, Genetic Manipulation Point to Future Chemoprevention Methods
		BOSTON -- Scientists are using genetic studies and natural chemicals, such as plant-derived triterpenoids, to further our knowledge on how genetic and early molecular interactions can lead to cancer, and how those early interactions can be manipulated to stave off a variety of cancers.
		Beginning at 10 weeks of age, mice that were genetically altered to become susceptible to breast cancer were fed either a control diet, a dose of CDDO-ME, LG 100268, or a combination of the two.
		Mice with a genetic alteration that reduced amounts of a key growth hormone had fewer carcinogen-induced tumors than mice with normal levels of the hormone, a research group from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), University of Texas-Austin and Mount Sinai School of Medicine found.
	www.aacr.org /home/about-us/news.aspx?d=678 (1457 words)

	Seven benefits and risks associated with genetic manipulation
		It also permits scientists to be very specific in altering the genetic makeup of new crop varieties.
		Genetic manipulation could enhance natural plant toxins by switching on a gene with toxic effects.
		Among genetically modified products are crops with a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that produces a protein toxic to insects.
	medcomres.com /articles/genetic_manipulation_seven.htm (511 words)

	Genetic Engineering -- Gene Splicing
		Genetic engineering, genetic modification (GM), and gene splicing (once in widespread use but now deprecated) are terms for the process of manipulating genes in an organism, usually outside the organism's normal reproductive process.
		Genetic sequencing which is used to identify each base in DNA is exceedingly cheap.
		Proponents say that genetically engineered crops are not significantly different from those modified by nature or humans in the past, and by extension are as safe or even safer than such methods.
	www.edinformatics.com /inventions_inventors/genetic_engineering.htm (1584 words)

	Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods
		BOSTON -- Scientists are using genetic studies and natural chemicals, such as plant-derived triterpenoids, to further our knowledge on how genetic and early molecular interactions can lead to cancer, and how those early interactions can be manipulated to stave off a variety of cancers.
		Beginning at 10 weeks of age, mice that were genetically altered to become susceptible to breast cancer were fed either a control diet, a dose of CDDO-ME, LG 100268, or a combination of the two.
		Mice with a genetic alteration that reduced amounts of a key growth hormone had fewer carcinogen-induced tumors than mice with normal levels of the hormone, a research group from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), University of Texas-Austin and Mount Sinai School of Medicine found.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-11/aafc-pmg110806.php (1449 words)

	Genetic Competition - technology speeds evolution
		It is clear that genetic selection, in addition to reducing the propensity for disease through elimination of undesirable genes, will also improve physical characteristics and intelligence.
		It is clear that genetic selection and manipulation, in addition to reducing the propensity for disease through elimination of undesirable genes, will also improve physical characteristics and intelligence.
		Cloning could clearly be used to perpetuate a genetically stable lineage for a great leader, with genetic manipulation to eliminate undesirable character traits.
	www.jimpinto.com /writings/genetic.html (982 words)

	Seven benefits and risks associated with genetic manipulation
		It also permits scientists to be very specific in altering the genetic makeup of new crop varieties.
		Genetic manipulation could enhance natural plant toxins by switching on a gene with toxic effects.
		Among genetically modified products are crops with a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that produces a protein toxic to insects.
	www.medcomres.com /articles/genetic_manipulation_seven.htm (511 words)

	Genetic Engineering
		'Genetic engineering' or genetic manipulation as it should properly be called, relies essentially on the ability to manipulate molecules in vitro.
		In fact, the genetic code is not completely universal - there are minor differences in the codons which are recognised ∧ used by different groups of organisms, e.g.
		A list of some of the products produced by genetic engineering is given elsewhere, but this is expanding very rapidly ∧ new products of great medical, agricultural, environmental ∧ industrial importance are constantly being produced by this route.
	www.tulane.edu /~dmsander/WWW/109/GeneticEngineering.html (948 words)

	What's Next In Science & Technology - Genetic manipulation modifies oil created by plant enzyme - Potential ...
		Using genetic manipulation to modify the activity of a plant enzyme, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have converted an unsaturated oil in the seeds of a temperate plant to the more saturated kind usually found in tropical plants.
		The genetic manipulations that reduced KASII activity resulted in a seven-fold increase in 16-carbon unsaturated fatty acids — up to an unprecedented 53 percent — in the temperate Arabidopsis plant seed oils.
		"These results demonstrate that manipulation of a single enzyme's activity is sufficient to convert the seed oil composition of Arabidopsis from that of a typical temperate pant to that of a tropical palm-like oil," Shanklin said.
	www.whatsnextnetwork.com /technology/index.php/2007/03/07/genetic_manipulation_modifies_oil_create (826 words)

	Say no to genetic engineering \| Greenpeace International
		Genetic engineering enables scientists to create plants, animals and micro-organisms by manipulating genes in a way that does not occur naturally.
		Their release is 'genetic pollution' and is a major threat because GMOs cannot be recalled once released into the environment.
		- Go to the GE agriculture and genetic pollution section to find out about: the dangers of GE agriculture, which crops are currently being developed, genetic pollution and the dangers of patenting life.
	www.greenpeace.org /~geneng (651 words)

	Pharmaceutical genomic & proteomic manipulation & disruption (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The genetic information provides the blueprint for the manufacture of all the proteins necessary to create a living organism, whereas the epigenetic information provides additional instructions on how, where, and when the genetic information will be used.
		We are investigating the hypothesis that essential hypertension, one of these diseases, is caused primarily by combinations of quantitative genetic variants that individually have only modest effects.
		Reverse genetic methods are much more amenable to whole genome, high- throughput analysis and to automation than is forward genetics.
	www.genomicglossaries.com /content/manipulation.asp (7711 words)

	To Uplift or Not To Uplift: The Ethics of Genetic Manipulation
		The most important question about the ethics of genetic manipulation in animals is not whether the methods are sound; it is whether it is moral to do so in the first place.
		As species are genetically manipulated, they will become increasingly dependent on human technologies to maintain the diversity (4).
		Genetic manipulation is offensive to some because it turns animals into commodities.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /biology/b103/f00/web1/kaczmarek.html (1496 words)

	Genetic Manipulation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used to kill the stem cells in your bone that are producing the bad red and white blood cells.
		Genetically, they are identical to the other person and produce red and white blood cells identical to the other person.
		Genetic structures of different species have been combined in the past to make new ones.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /askasci/mole00/mole00514.htm (236 words)

	Atlantis, Alien Visitation & Genetic Manipulation - Michael Tsarion
		Their genetic interference of the Earth Races resulted in several hybrid creatures, one of whom I will refer to as "Homo Atlantis." Each and every living "Adamic" human, of the last 10 millennia or more, is descended from this exceptional being.
		The end-game of the visiting alien race and their descendants is being played out in the present "Silicon Age." It swiftly and relentlessly advances while most of us, preoccupied with our domestic and professional roles, have little time or energy to speculate how the multifarious phenomena of our world came into being.
		Adroit manipulation from those within the echelons of power make quite certain that our attention is rarely focused on the law-makers and those in control of the economy, military, media and technology of the world.
	oneheartbooks.com /books/atlantis/atlantis_aliens_tsarion.htm (1080 words)

	MSc in Plant Genetic Manipulation - School of Biosciences - The University of Nottingham
		This course is designed to provide students with specialist knowledge of the theory and practical skills of plant genetic manipulation relevant to plant biotechnology, plant breeding and genome research, leading to appropriately trained scientists for employment in agro-industry, academia and research institutes.
		The MSc in Plant Genetic Manipulation is taught in a superbly equipped new Plant Sciences building by one of the largest Plant Science Departments in the UK.
		Innovative techniques for genetic manipulation of plants are presented against a background of a continuing need for plant improvement in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /biosciences/courses/msc_plant_genetic_manipulation.php (1122 words)

	Genetic Manipulation in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Obesity Research - Science - RedOrbit
		These molecular biology procedures can be carried out with the maintenance of the genetic information to subsequent generations (transgenic technology) or devised to exclusively transfer the genetic material to a given target animal, which cannot be transmitted to the future progeny (gene therapy).
		Among all of the possible animal species to be used for nutritional research and gene manipulation, the mouse and rat are the models of choice.
		Depending on the method used to introduce the gene, as well as the time and site in which the process occurs, genetic manipulation can be preserved by the successive generations creating the germline transmission.10 In this method, usually termed transgenic technology (Figure 1), every cell of the animal carries the genetic manipulation.
	www.redorbit.com /news/science/90014/genetic_manipulation_in_nutrition_metabolism_and_obesity_research/index.html (3610 words)

	Genetic Manipulation: The Risks, The Benefits
		Genetic Manipulation is the wave of the future in the sciences.
		The things a person can do with Genetic Manipulation is almost endless and the lists of conditions that can be cured is almost as long.
		There are many way in which Genetic Manipulation can help everyone in the world weather a small African village, or a big shot Wall street tycoon.
	www.freewebs.com /aganton/index.htm (99 words)

	"Genetic Manipulation of Early Primates" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		This "alien" being is responsible for the genetic manipulation of early primates thus the fall of man from the earth garden called Eden.
		Three successive generations of male are subjected to genetic manipulation.
		Genetic manipulation of the male human continued until completed as of the early 1960's and possibly as late as 1970.
	ummo.cc /GeneticManipulationEarlyPrimates.html (185 words)

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