| August 22, 2008 | -
Japanese scientists created human stem cells from a little girl's teeth.
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BBC News
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| August 15, 2008 | - Two Bigfoot hunters said they had killed one such animal and were storing its carcass in a freezer; analysts found that of the two DNA samples that the hunters provided to prove Bigfoot's existence, one was from a human and the other was 96 percent opossum.
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New York Times
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New York Times
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| August 7, 2008 | -
Australian police reopened 7,000 investigations after realizing that they had mixed up DNA samples and wrongly arrested a man for double homicide and child rape.
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Reuters
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| August 5, 2008 | - It was discovered that a woman who paid a South Korean company to create five clones of her pitbull Booger was Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who escaped British authorities in 1977 after abducting a Mormon missionary, securing him to a bed with mink-lined handcuffs, and raping him three times. “They are perfectly the same as their daddy,” said McKinney, in Seoul, of Booger's clones. “I am in Heaven here.”
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Salt Lake Tribune
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Daily Mail
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The Register
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| July 9, 2008 | - Danish scientists found that infants born from once-frozen embryos had a higher birth weight and fewer twin siblings, and were less likely to suffer from abnormalities. “Only the very top quality embryos,” explained Dr. Anja Pinborg, “survive the freezing and thawing process.”
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Telegraph UK
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| June 14, 2008 | - Geneticists were developing bugs that eat woodchips and excrete petroleum.
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Times
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| May 13, 2008 | - Curators at the Museum of Modern Art pulled the incubator plug on a tiny coat made of living mouse stem cells after it grew too fast.
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The New York Times
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| January 18, 2008 | - Researchers in San Diego announced that they had cloned
human embryos from skin cells.
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New York Times
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| December 12, 2007 | -
Scientists
cloned fluorescent cats, developed an antidote for zombieism in cockroaches, and revealed that evolutionary changes in the lower backs and hip joints of females prevent pregnant women from toppling over. “When you think about it,” said Harvard anthropologist Katherine Whitcome, “women make it look so very damn easy.”
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New Scientist
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Yahoo News
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CNN
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| December 11, 2007 | - Researchers in Chicago used drugs and manipulated genes to control the sexuality of fruit flies, making them gay and then straight again within a few hours. “It was very dramatic,” said scientist David Featherstone. “They even attempted copulation.”
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Fox News
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| November 22, 2007 | - Teams of biologists in Japan and Wisconsin discovered new methods for transforming human skin cells into “induced pluripotent stem cells.” Both techniques employ a retrovirus to inject the cells with four “master regulator” genes that reprogram the cells' function. The Wisconsin team, directed by James A. Thompson, who pioneered the harvesting of embryonic stem cells, culled its skin cells from foreskins. The Japanese team conducted their preliminary research on mice, with a cancer gene among the regulators, and created in the process a mischief of clone mice, 20 percent of which developed cancer. President George W. Bush was said to be “very pleased” that the innovation might render the use of embryonic stem cells obsolete, but critics said it was too soon to tell whether the synthesized stem cells would prove as versatile as those from embryos.
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New York Times
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Seattle Times
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New York Times
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| November 4, 2007 | -
British police documents revealed that the DNA of suspects accused of crimes such as picking wildflowers or defacing coins will be stored for life in a national database.
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Telegraph
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| October 17, 2007 | - James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of DNA, said that while he wishes everyone were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.”
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CNN
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| October 17, 2007 | - James Watson, who won the Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of DNA, said that while he wishes everyone were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.”
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CNN
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| October 6, 2007 | - Researcher Craig Venter announced that he has constructed a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals, creating the first artificial life form on Earth.
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Guardian
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| September 5, 2007 | - The United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority agreed to allow the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.
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BBCnews.com
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| July 30, 2007 | -
A gene that preserves intense emotional memories was discovered in 12 percent of African Americans and a third of Caucasians.
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ABC News
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| January 4, 2007 | - A two-faced calf was born on a farm in Virginia. “Genetically, this is one of my better calves,” said its owner.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| December 14, 2006 | -
British
geneticists investigating the case of a 10-year-old Pakistani boy who could walk on burning coals announced that they had discovered a gene that influences the perception of pain. They could not examine the boy directly because he had died after leaping off a roof to impress his friends.
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NYT
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| August 23, 2006 | - Advanced Cell Technology, an American biotech company, successfully created embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos.
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Financial Times
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| July 24, 2006 | -
Geneticists were optimistic about their plans to sequence and compare the genomes of such primate species as the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), the orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), and the gorilla (Gorilla gorilla).
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medicalnewstoday.com
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| July 19, 2006 | - President George W. Bush issued his first executive veto, striking down a bill that would have expanded federal research involving embryonic stem cells.
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NY Times
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| April 7, 2006 | -
Paleontologists announced that they had discovered a 375-million-year-old fossil in Canada that they believe is the "missing link" between water-dwelling and land-dwelling animals.
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Practical fishkeeping
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| March 7, 2006 | - Scientists were investigating a family of mentally retarded Kurds in Turkey who walk on all fours. "However they arrived at this point," said a scientist, "we have adult human beings walking like ancestors several million years ago."
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Time-warp family who walk on all fours
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| February 21, 2006 | - British scientists said that DNA found at crime scenes could be used to predict the surname of a criminal.
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BBC News
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| February 1, 2006 | -
Genetic tests found that 30 percent of African Americans have white male ancestors.
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USA Today
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| January 31, 2006 | -
President Bush gave the State of the Union address and asked Congress to pass laws outlawing human/animal hybrids.
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The White House
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| January 13, 2006 | -
British researchers were hoping to fuse human cells with rabbit eggs in order to generate stem cells. “The fertility of rabbits,” noted a researcher, “is legendary.”
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The Guardian
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| December 20, 2005 | -
Prebiotic organic molecules--which are found in DNA--were discovered in constellation Ophiuchus, 375 light-years from earth.
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MSNBC
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| December 18, 2005 | -
Scientists decoded the mitochondrial DNA of the woolly mammoth and confirmed that the mammoth was more closely related to the Asian elephant than to the African elephant.
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BBC News
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| November 24, 2005 | - In South Korea
geneticist Hwang Woo-suk, who cloned an Afghan hound named Snuppy, resigned as chairman of the World Stem Cell Hub after it was discovered that he had used the eggs of women from his research team in experiments. “We needed a lot of ova for the research,” he explained, “but there were not enough ova around.”
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BBC News
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| November 21, 2005 | - In Australia a ten-year attempt to create pest-resistant
peas was cancelled after it was found that the peas cause lung damage in mice.
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New Scientist
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| November 21, 2005 | -
Scientists found the gene that regulates fear in mice and created mice that are not afraid.
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Newsday
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| November 9, 2005 | - Eight pro-Intelligent-Design members of the Dover Board of Education in Pennsylvania were voted out of office and replaced with pro-evolution candidates. Pat Robertson suggested that God would forsake the people of Dover if disaster struck their town. “If they have future problems in Dover,” said Robertson, “I recommend they call on Charles Darwin. Maybe he can help them.”
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Post-gazette.com
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The Miami Herald
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| October 10, 2005 | - An Australian
tortoise named Harriet was nearing her 175th birthday. The tortoise was originally collected from the Galapagos Islands, and misidentified as a male, by Charles Darwin.
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News.com.au
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| July 14, 2005 | - Hoping to stave off the development of super-intelligent monkeys, a panel of scientists issued guidelines on the insertion of human stem cells into monkey brains.
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Live Science
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| June 13, 2005 | - Genetic engineers were growing a SARS vaccine in tomatoes.
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Globe and Mail
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| June 5, 2005 | -
Scientists found that a single “switch gene” determined whether a fruit fly turned out gay or not.
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The Independent
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| June 3, 2005 | -
Scientists in California sequenced the genes of an extinct cave bear using material extracted from its teeth, and now plan to sequence the genes of Neanderthals. "I think it will work," said a scientist. "It is just a matter of time."
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BBC News
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| May 16, 2005 | - A professor of biology at Indiana University claimed that the female orgasm was only for fun.
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AZCentral.com
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| May 6, 2005 | - The Kansas state school board began four days of hearings on how to teach the origin of life; all of the witnesses in the hearing were opposed to teaching evolution.
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BBC News
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| April 29, 2005 | - A flock of fifty sheep with partially human organs was grazing outside of Las Vegas.
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AP
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| April 17, 2005 | -
Britain stopped importing United States
corn after discovering that the United States had been sending banned, genetically modified corn to the U.K. for the past four years.
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The Independent
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| April 12, 2005 | - Brewer Anheuser-Busch, America's number one buyer of rice, announced that it will no longer buy rice from Missouri if that state allows genetically modified rice to be grown within its borders.
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CNN.com
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| April 6, 2005 | -
Geneticists bred blue roses.
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Biology News Net
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| March 5, 2005 | - Archaeologists in Ethiopia unearthed several four-million-year-old skeletons believed to be ancestors of modern humans.
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Reuters
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| October 21, 2004 | -
French researchers reported that the spotted green pufferfish also possesses about 25,000 genes.
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New York Times
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| October 20, 2004 | - A recount resulted in a revised estimate of the number of human genes to between 20,000 and 25,000.
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New Scientist
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| October 19, 2004 | - British scientists want to create human embryos that have three genetic parents.
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New Scientist
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| October 7, 2004 | - Scientists sequenced the genome of a Hereford cow.
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Associated Press
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| August 27, 2004 | -
Colombian police discovered a genetically engineered variety of coca plant that produces up to four times more cocaine than the traditional varieties.
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Telegraph
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| August 24, 2004 | - Scientists found that when fruit flies are missing one of two genes that control the circadian clock, they have much greater sexual endurance. "What has been found in fruit flies," said one of the study's authors, "turns out to be true in humans in many ways."
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Science Daily
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| August 24, 2004 | - Scientists created genetically engineered mice that can run farther and longer than normal mice.
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Associated Press
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| August 11, 2004 | - British researchers were granted a license to clone human stem cells.
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Associated Press
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| July 30, 2004 | -
Francis Crick died.
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New York Times
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| July 23, 2004 | - Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor found wide genetic variations among healthy people; many people lack large sequences of DNA; others have multiple copies.
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Newsday
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| July 14, 2004 | - A first draft of the dog
genome was released.
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NIH
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| July 10, 2004 | - The French parliament banned human cloning.
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Reuters
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| June 4, 2004 | - Scientists in California deleted huge chunks of DNA from the mouse genome to see what would happen to the animals and were surprised to find that they couldn't tell any difference.
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New Scientist
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| May 31, 2004 | -
Kirin Brewery Co. announced that it had genetically
engineered a cow, which has not yet been born, that will be immune to mad cow disease.
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Reuters
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| March 30, 2004 | -
Angola was planning to outlaw genetically engineered cereals, which would jeopardize a United Nations program that feeds 2 million people.
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New York Times
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| March 24, 2004 | - Geneticists suggested that a mutation that weakened the jaw muscles of early humans 2.4 million years ago might have enabled the skull to grow larger to provide more space for the brain.
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Reuters
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| March 15, 2004 | -
Great Britain approved the commercial cultivation of genetically modified maize.
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New Scientist
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| March 13, 2004 | - The Commission for Environmental Cooperation warned Mexico that its genetically precious native corn varieties are threatened by pollution from genetically modified corn.
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New York Times
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| March 7, 2004 | - The Union of Concerned Scientists reported that more than two thirds of conventional crops have been polluted with genetically modified material. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Biotechnology Industry Association said the report was unsurprising.
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Independent
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| February 10, 2004 | - Fat rats lost weight after they were given a gene-therapy shot.
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New Scientist
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| February 9, 2004 | -
Researchers at DeCODE Genetics in Iceland found a gene that doubles one's risk of heart attack.
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New York Post
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| February 6, 2004 | - A new study found that many organic food products sold in the UK contain genetically modified ingredients.
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Nature.com
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| February 4, 2004 | -
Genetic engineers succeeded in causing mice to produce fish oils, which are thought to be healthy.
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New Scientist
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| December 8, 2003 | -
GlaxoSmithKline's head of genetics admitted that "the vast majority of drugs — more than 90 percent — only work in 30 or 50 percent of the people."
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Independent
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| January 28, 2003 | -
Scientists in New Zealand revealed that they have genetically engineered cattle to produce higher levels of protein in their milk, which could speed cheese production.
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| September 17, 2002 | -
The House Energy and Commerce Committee decided not to subpoena Martha Stewart about her suspiciously well-timed trade of ImClone stock.
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| February 19, 2002 | -
Scientists at the Genetic Savings and Clone in College Station, Texas, announced that they had cloned a cat.
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| September 11, 2001 | - Physicist Stephen Hawking recommended that humans modify their genome to speed up evolution and prevent intelligent computers from taking over the world.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Maryland failed to pass a moratorium on executions, but did ban the release of genetically modified fish.
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| March 27, 2001 | -
Scientists warned that clones often have random genetic flaws that produce severe developmental problems, immune-system disorders, and other defects; some cloned mice, for example, become enormously obese when they reach a certain age.
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| March 20, 2001 | - Aventis CropScience reported that 430 million bushels of American corn are contaminated with StarLink, its genetically modified corn, which is unfit for human consumption, much more than the 70 million bushels previously reported.
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| February 27, 2001 | -
Researchers at Du Pont cloned a gene that will allow plants to produce plastic.
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| February 20, 2001 | - The European Parliament approved strict rules on genetically modified organisms.
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| February 13, 2001 | - Human proteins were produced by a genetically modified rubber-tree plant; Hoong-Yeet Yang of the Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia, who said the technique involved the use of gene switches from viruses, had high hopes of producing valuable raw materials for pharmaceuticals.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Australian
researchers, who were trying to use genetic engineering to sterilize mice, accidentally created a deadly, immune-system-destroying strain of the mousepox virus, a cousin of the human smallpox virus.
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| December 19, 2000 | - An international team of scientists announced that they had finished the first complete genetic sequence of a plant; Arabidopsis thaliana, or thale-cress, is related to cauliflowers and brussels sprouts and previously was a worthless weed.
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| December 19, 2000 | - The Scottish scientists who made Dolly, the famous sheep clone, announced a plan to make genetically modified chickens that will lay eggs containing drugs.
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| December 12, 2000 | -
Genetic tests revealed strong evidence for the “out of Africa” theory of human origins.
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| November 28, 2000 | - Aventis Corporation,
which recently got into trouble over its StarLink genetically modified
corn, announced that the unapproved StarLink protein Cry9c had shown
up in non-genetically modified corn that will soon reach the nation's
food supply. The company had no explanation for how the protein, which
is the result of genetic engineering, made its way into normal corn;
biologists pointed out that it was probably the result of natural
hybridization between GM and non-GM corn planted too close together.
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| November 21, 2000 | -
Geneticists found that Jews and Palestinians have a fairly recent common ancestry, which supports historical evidence that Palestinians are descended from Jews and Christians who converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century C.E.
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| November 14, 2000 | - Friends of the Earth reported the discovery of Monsanto's “Roundup Ready” corn in European food; the genetically modified corn has not been approved in Europe for any use.
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| October 31, 2000 | - StarLink genetically modified corn was found in Japanese snack food.
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| October 24, 2000 | -
Farmers who planted StarLink, a type of genetically modified corn
sold by Aventis CropScience, said they were not told the corn was unfit for human consumption; millions of bushels of the corn may have contaminated the nation's corn supply.
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| October 17, 2000 | - Safeway, the supermarket chain, recalled its house brand of corn taco shells after food critics discovered that the shells contained StarLink, a type of genetically modified corn that was not approved for human consumption.
Taco Bell previously recalled its shells.
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| October 10, 2000 | - It was revealed that Britain was again experimenting with genetically modified crops, though the agriculture ministry had repeatedly denied it was doing so.
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| October 10, 2000 | - A baby was born who was bred in a test tube and genetically selected to be compatible with his sister, who received a stem-cell transplant that might save her from leukemia.
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| October 3, 2000 | -
Scientists at Monsanto were working on genetically modified lawn grasses that will come in bright new colors, require less water, and glow in the dark.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Paul Miller, the U.S. equal opportunities commissioner, wrote an article calling for legal protection for the genetically challenged; civil rights activists have documented over 200 cases of genetic discrimination by employers.
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| September 26, 2000 | -
Kraft Foods recalled taco shells that contain StarLink, a type of genetically modified corn that was approved for animal consumption but specifically disapproved for humans.
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| August 29, 2000 | - A study in Iowa found that a variety of genetically modified corn that produces its own insecticide kills monarch butterfly caterpillars.
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| August 22, 2000 | -
Russia's Orthodox Church rejected genetic engineering, homosexuality, euthanasia, and abortion while reaffirming private property and the church's close ties to the Russian military.
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| August 8, 2000 | -
Monsanto said it would release patent rights to golden rice, a strain of genetically-altered rice that is rich in vitamin A, in order to help poor countries fight malnutrition.
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