GMW: Genome scrambling: new paper out

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GMW: Genome scrambling: new paper out

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Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:43:01 GMT

 

 

 

 

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The following is from Dr Jonathan Latham of the Bioscience Resource

Project. He's referring to the groundbreaking report Genome Scrambling -

Myth or Reality? Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop

Plants Technical Report - October 2004, Allison Wilson, PhD, Jonathan

Latham, PhD, and Ricarda Steinbrecher, PhD.

 

Based on an extensive review of research, this report showed that the

process of genetic engineering far from being precise, predictable, and

safe, as claimed by GM advocates, actually results in widespread

mutations within the inserted gene, near its insertion, and in

hundreds or

thousands of locations throughout the genome. These mutations are

overlooked by many scientists and regulators even though they represent a

significant potential risk to public health and the environment.

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from Dr Latham:

 

Our (peer-reviewed) paper based on the Genome Scrambling-Myth or

Reality report is now available (for free) at the open access journal:

 

Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2006 p1-7 article ID 25376

available at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/JBB/index.html

 

Title: The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation

 

It is briefer than the original report but covers most of the same

ground.

 

You can read the abstract only at:

http://www.hindawi.com/GetArticle.aspx?pii=S1110724306253762

 

but it gives you the option of downloading the pdf of the whole thing

for free

 

Best wishes

Jonathan Latham (PhD)

 

Bioscience Resource Project

email: jrlatham

 

The Bioscience Resource Project supports the use of science for

peaceful and equitable ends and provides a resource for biologists and

scientists who share this aim.

 

 

 

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