Biotech News Goat-Spider BioSteel
Montreal-based Nexia Biotechnologies has inserted a gene from a spider into goats, in order to create "BioSteel" milk.
Scientists Rush to Patent Human Cells Race to Buy Life Documents uncovered in the United Kingdom show that over half a million patents on genes or gene sequences have been granted or are pending.
Biotech Push Pending The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) represents more than 1,000 biotech companies and organizations worldwide, and approximately 80 of these are from Canada. The next BIO 2002 International Biotechnology Convention and Exhibition is scheduled to take place in Toronto from June 9 to 12, 2002.
Consumers Want Labelling of GE Foods Canada will soon have a new set of labelling standards for foods. Manufacturers may voluntarily label foods that are genetically engineered (GE) or contain GE ingredients, but they won’t be required by law to do s.
Old MacDonald Had a Seed Throughout the Prairies and farming communities across the nation, an issue is being hotly debated by both multi-hectare farmers and small-market gardeners: Is the Canadian government handing over control of our food system to transnational biotech corporations?
Functional Foods What’s red and round and contains lycopene? Hippocrates would have called it a tomato. Proponents of the next nutritional wave of foods in Canada would call it a gold mine.
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