BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 23/3
Daily Highlights
1. Get Used To Extreme Weather, Expert
Says
2. Time For A Decision On GM Crops
3. WA Bans GM
Food Crops
4. Local Councils May Make GE-Free Zones
5.
Benefits Of Green Tea Uncovered
6. GM Tobacco Potential
Cancer Vaccine
Get used to extreme weather, expert
says
Global warming means New Zealanders should get used
to more extreme weather events similar to last month's
severe storms, a top climate expert says. Niwa senior
climate scientist Jim Salinger told...
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Time
for a decision on GM crops
Last July, gene technology
researcher and president of the Australian Academy of
Science, Jim Peacock, gave a speech in which, according to
an editorial in The Age, he accused state
governments...
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WA
bans GM food crops
Western Australia will become the
first state in Australia to officially ban the production of
genetically modified (GM) food crops.The decision by the
State Government will ensure farmers can
con...
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Local
councils may make GE-free zones
Some candidates in the
October 9 local council elections may make local GE-free
zones a part of their campaign, co-leader of the Green Party
in Parliament, Jeanette Fitzsimons said today. "There
c...
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Benefits
of green tea uncovered
The secret of green tea's
anti-cancer properties has been uncovered.Numerous studies
suggest that green tea helps protect against a range of
cancers, including lung, prostate and breast cancer.
Th...
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GM
tobacco potential cancer vaccine
Scientists at UCT are
using genetically altered tobacco plants to create vaccines
against cervical cancer. They aim to create vaccines that
fight the virus not the wallet. Rows of bright
gree...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=6936
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Editor: Christine
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