Humans have to be genetically modified just to talk to them.
An island-full of identical individuals could be wiped out by an infection, just as entire crops of genetically identical plants may succumb to plague and pestilence.
Just as it is only genetically fit peacocks that can grow symmetrical tails with perfectly repeated eyespots, only genetically fit artists, with good muscular co-ordination and perfect vision, can produce accurate repetitions of complex, symmetrical motifs.
But some poorer countries, such as India (which is just harvesting its first crop of genetically modified cotton), are worried that their farmers will be shut out of European markets because they will not have the means to comply.
Thanks to the unraveling of the human genome, we are on the brink of an era of narrowly targeted, genetically geared therapies tailored to just small slices of the patient population.
Jensen hopes to genetically modify them to ferret out tumors just as they would virus-infected cells.
Mind you, textures are all those crocs sacrificed, as like the company's earlier Crocodile-themed machines these lappys are still made entirely of plastic and bits of silicon -- just grooved and pigmented to look like prehistoric, genetically modified reptiles (check out the detail pic after the break).
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For example, the adoption of genetically engineered, herbicide-tolerant crops just in the United States contributed in 2010 to the equivalent of removing 11 billion pounds (5 billion kg) of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the equivalent of removing nearly 2.25 million cars from the road for one year.
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Among other colossal ambitions, he wants to revitalize the troubled field of gene therapy, make dozens of inexpensive protein drugs and produce better genetically engineered crops that will benefit consumers, not just farmers.
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If your eggs are getting thawed out and fertilized in vitro, why not be certain you are getting just the child you want by choosing its sex or making sure she isn't genetically predisposed to, say, depression or cancer?
The Constitution also protects the right to sell non-genetically engineered foods and to advertise that fact on product labels, and over just the last decade, more than 7, 000 new food and beverage products have been introduced in the United States with explicit non-GE labeling, joining thousands of others that have been on the market since the early 1990s.
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