Source: Reuters – Tue, 14 May 2013 12:59 PM Author: Reuters Plant specialist Nancy Brumley ties up a soybean stalk in a greenhouse at the Monsanto Research facility in Chesterfield, Missouri, Oct. 9, 2009. REUTERS/Peter Newcomb * Report critical of… Read More ›
Biotechnology
Monsanto pressing ahead with GMO crop amid USDA scrutiny
Source: Reuters – Wed, 15 May 2013 12:40 AM Author: Reuters By Carey Gillam St. Louis, Mo. May 14 (Reuters) – Monsanto Co. is pushing on with plans to introduce a controversial new type of herbicide-tolerant crop, and last week’s… Read More ›
Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant (Insurance against being sued by Monsanto)
Published: 22 November, 2012, 00:09 (Reuters / Robert Pratta) The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto,… Read More ›
Reprogramming of Pericyte-Derived Cells of the Adult Human Brain into Induced Neuronal Cells
Reprogramming of somatic cells into neurons provides a new approach toward cell-based therapy of neurodegenerative diseases (Vierbuchen and Wernig, 2011). Previous studies have shown that postnatal astroglia from the mouse cerebral cortex can be directly converted into functional neuronal cells… Read More ›
Stem-cell-protecting drug could prevent the harmful side effects of radiation therapy: mTOR inhibitor rapamycin
Contact: Elisabeth Lyons elyons@cell.com 617-386-2121 Cell Press Radiation therapy is one of the most widely used cancer treatments, but it often damages normal tissue and can lead to debilitating conditions. A class of drugs known as mammalian target of rapamycin… Read More ›
Fish oil may hold key to leukemia cure
This is a Repost from 6 months ago. What is Evil about it, is that none of this information is being conveyed to patients…Hence a rare re-post for me… A compound produced from fish oil that appears to target leukemia stem cells… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 