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New non-transgenic GE technology platform for genetic improvement of sunflower oilseed crop

May 13, 2013 — Scientists have developed techniques for the genetic improvement of sunflowers using a non-GMO based approach. The new technology platform can harness the plant's own genes to improve characteristics of sunflower, develop genetic traits, which will improve its role as an important oilseed crop.The work was led by Dr Manash Chatterjee, an Adjunct Faculty member of Botany and Plant...

RURO Introduces ezColony 4.1 – The Versatile Transgenic Animal Colony Management Software

Frederick, MD (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 RURO Inc. is pleased to announce the release of ezColony version 4.1, a versatile refinement to the smart management solution. ezColony, a world-class premier software solution, improves its advanced methodica...

RURO Introduces ezColony 4.1 – The Versatile Transgenic Animal Colony Management Software

RURO Inc. is pleased to announce the release of ezColony version 4.1, a versatile refinement to the smart management solution. Frederick, MD (PRWEB) May 17, 2013 RURO Inc. is pleased to announce the release of ezColony version 4.1, a versatile refinement to the smart management solution. ezColony, a world-class premier software solution, improves its advanced methodical management for transgenic...

Pharming reports on financial results first quarter 2013

Leiden, The Netherlands, 16 May 2013. Biotech company Pharming Group NV ("Pharming" or "the Company") (NYSE Euronext: PHARM) today published its financial report for the three months ended 31 March 2013. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Revenues and other income decreased to €0.5 million (Q1 2012: €1.0 million) Operating costs decreased to €2.9 million (Q1 2012: €5.2 million...

Dr. Rongxiang Xu, Patent Owner of Damaged Organ Regeneration, a Top Priority Addressed in the 2013 Presidential State of The Union, Files Lawsuit Against Dr. Yamanaka for Deception

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 8, 2013, Dr. Rongxiang Xu, the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" and a renowned life and medical scientist who is believed to be the only person who has patented the technology for direct regeneration of damaged organs has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, one of the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

Dr. Rongxiang Xu, Patent Owner of Damaged Organ Regeneration, a Top Priority Addressed in the 2013 Presidential State of The Union, Files Lawsuit Against 2012 Nobel Laureate Dr. Yamanaka for Deception

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 8, 2013, Dr. Rongxiang Xu, the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" and a renowned life and medical scientist who is believed to be the only person who has patented the technology for direct regeneration of damaged organs has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, one of the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or...

Dr. Rongxiang Xu, Owner of Patented Technology to Regenerate Damaged Organs, Announces Lawsuit Against 2012 Nobel Laureate Dr. Shinya Yamanaka

LOS ANGELES, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 8, 2013, Dr. Rongxiang Xu, the founder of "human body regenerative restoration science" and a renowned life and medical scientist who is believed to be the only person who has patented the technology for direct regeneration of damaged organs has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, one of the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physio...

Jack Green Joins Verastem as Chief Financial Officer

Verastem, Inc., (NASDAQ: VSTM) focused on discovering and developing drugs to treat cancer by the targeted killing of cancer stem cells, announced the appointment of John “Jack” Green as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Green was the former Chief Financial Officer of GTC Biotherapeutics and has held multiple senior finance roles in public and private biote...

Patent Protection for TAL Effector Technology Enables Licensing Path for Life Technologies Customers

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) announced today the issuance of a new patent covering nucleic acids encoding Transcription Activator-Like Effector Nuclease fusion proteins (TALENS) and the formal launch of an associated sublicensing program.  The technology has broad utility in the pharmaceutical industry, synthetic biology, and...

Protein body formation in stable transgenic tobacco expressing elastin-like polypeptide and hydrophobin fusion proteins

Background: Plants are recognized as an efficient and inexpensive system to produce valuable recombinant proteins. Two different strategies have been commonly used for the expression of recombinant proteins in plants: transient expression mediated by...

Cystic Fibrosis-Associated Intestinal Obstruction Ameliorated By Gene Replacement In Pigs

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in CFTR and is characterized by dysfunction of the lungs, liver, pancreas, and intestines. Approximately 15% of babies with CF are born with an obstruction of the small intestine known as meconium ileus, fr...

Gene replacement in pigs ameliorates cystic fibrosis-associated intestinal obstruction

(Journal of Clinical Investigation) In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Michael Welsh and colleagues at the University of Iowa demonstrate that transgenic expression of normal CFTR in the intestine of CF pigs alleviated meconium i...

Creation of Resveratrol-Enriched Rice for the Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome and Related Diseases

AbstractResveratrol has been clinically shown to possess a number of human health benefits. As a result, many attempts have been made to engineer resveratrol production in major cereal grains but have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we report the creation of a transgenic rice plant that accumulates 1.9 µg resveratrol/g in its grain, surpassing the previously reported anti-metabolic synd...

Scientists create animal models by altering specific genes associated with a given disease

Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch, who helped transform the study of genetics by creating the first transgenic mouse in 1974, is again revolutionizing how genetically altered animal models are created and perhaps even redefining wha...

The Creation Of Genetically Altered Mice To Model Human Disease Revolutionized

Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch, who helped transform the study of genetics by creating the first transgenic mouse in 1974, is again revolutionizing how genetically altered animal models are created and perhaps even redefining wha...

Improved tools for the Brainbow toolbox

An improved Brainbow toolbox for expression in the mouse is presented in this Resource. The collection includes transgenic lines, plasmids and viral vectors with improved performance and added capabilities relative to the original Brainbow constructs...

The Fastest Way to Create Transgenic Mice

Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch, who helped transform the study of genetics by creating the first transgenic mouse in 1974, is again revolutionizing how genetically altered animal models are created and perhaps even redefining wha...

Fields of gold

Research on transgenic crops must be done outside industry if it is to fulfil its early promise.

Transgenic salmon nears approval

Slow US regulatory process highlights hurdles of getting engineered food animals to dinner tables.

Case studies: A hard look at GM crops

Superweeds? Suicides? Stealthy genes? The true, the false and the still unknown about transgenic crops.

Transgenics: A new breed

The next wave of genetically modified crops is making its way to market — and might just ease concerns over 'Frankenfoods'.

Biotechnology: Thirty years of transgenic plants

This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first successful introduction of a foreign gene into a plant (L.Herrera-Estrellaet al. Nature303, 209–213; 1983). To overcome today's huge agricultural hurdles, we should move to a model

GM CROPS: PROMISE AND REALITY -- Special issue big coverage at major Science magazine

@ Specials : Nature: GM CROPS: PROMISE AND REALITYThe introduction of the first transgenic plant 30 years ago heralded the start of a second green revolution, providing food to the starving, profits to farmers and environmental benefits to boot. Many GM crops fulfilled the promise. But their success has been mired in controversy with many questioning their safety, their profitability and thei...

Transgenics: A New Breed of Crops

When the first genetically modified (GM) organisms were being developed for the farm, says Anastasia Bodnar, “we were promised rocket jet packs” -- futuristic, ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and...

Transgenic Resistance Confers Effective Field Level Control of Bacterial Spot Disease in Tomato

AbstractWe investigated whether lines of transgenic tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) expressing the Bs2 resistance gene from pepper, a close relative of tomato, demonstrate improved resistance to bacterial spot disease caused by Xanthomonas species in replicated multi-year field trials under commercial type growing conditions. We report that the presence of the Bs2 gene in the highly susceptible VF 3...