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BioScience News Daily Highlights - Mon Dec. 8th
Daily Highlights
1. Bio-engineered plants promise a new
era of innovation
2. Study finds drugs harm DNA
3. GM
parasite set to wipe out possums
4. Greenhouse gas
research deal expected soon
5. Bitter pill: Govt
surrenders $200m industry to Australian control
6.
BioIndustry Review out next week
Bio-engineered plants
promise a new era of innovation
In 1798, the perennially
cheery Reverend Thomas Malthus came to a simpleconclusion:
we're all going to starve to death.In his famous social and
economic treatise, Essay on the Principle of
Popul...
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Study
finds drugs harm DNA
Cocaine and ecstasy not only cause
addiction and raise the risk of cancer but also provoke
genetic mutations, Italian scientists have reported."Cocaine
and ecstasy have proved to be more
dangerous...
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GM
parasite set to wipe out possums
Groundbreaking Kiwi
research into wiping out possums by genetically modifying a
parasite that lives in the pests has been highlighted at an
international wildlife conference in Christchurch writes
Bar...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5542
Greenhouse
gas research deal expected soon
The Government and
agriculture sector are expected to reach agreement on
greenhouse gas research funding by Christmas.Pastoral
industry representatives and the Government have been
working out the...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5559
Bitter
pill: Govt surrenders $200m industry to Australian
control
The Health Minister has effectively given
Australia control of New Zealand's $200 million dietary
supplements industry, according to Green MP Sue Kedgley."The
Minister's unilateral decision to reg...
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http://www.bioscinews.com/news-detail.asp?newsID=5545
BioIndustry
Review out next week
The third annual BioIndustry Review
for Australia and New Zealand is available from December
2003. In the 2003 Bioindustry Review you will find:Data,
statistics and trends in the Australian
an...
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From the BioScience News Team
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Editor: Christine
Ross
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