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BioScience News and Advocate Daily Highlights 19/4
Daily Highlights
Sweet deal for Comvita
Celentis
considers expanded role
Voluntary labelling gets offical
seal of approval
Gene profiles may aid cancer
treatment
Consumers love a bargain, regardless of GM
Towards sustainable agriculture
Sweet deal for
Comvita
New Zealand manuka honey will be used to treat
wounds in British hospitals. Te Puke-based Comvita's newly
established medical division has its first export order for
medical grade manuka honey. ...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7282
Celentis
considers expanded role
Commercial science company,
Celentis, is expanding its role in commercialising New
Zealand biotechnology.Celentis was incorporated in 2001 as
the commercial arm of AgResearch to bridge the so
call...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7287
Voluntary
labelling gets offical seal of approval
The Government of
Canada has announced the official adoption by the Standards
Council of Canada, of the Standard for Voluntary Labelling
and Advertising of Foods That Are and Are Not Products of
Genet...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7285
Gene
profiles may aid cancer treatment
United States
researchers have discovered 133 genes indicative of the most
severe strains of adult acute myeloid leukaemia, which could
help doctors identify patients who require aggressive
treatment...
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Consumers
love a bargain, regardless of GM
Less than a week prior
to the compulsory GM labelling standard becoming effective
throughout the EU, public German TV station ARD decided to
test how strong the perceived consumer rejection of any GM
...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7288
Towards
sustainable agriculture
Fighting the vicious circle of
hunger and poverty is the most urgent task that faces our
society, and will require a reformulation of current models
of agriculture, Marc Van Montagu writes. As
Dir...
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http://www.BioSciNews.com/files/news-detail.asp?newsID=7279
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