Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Psychoactive substances derived from genetically modified organisms. Cocaine. GMO plant: Nicotiana benthamiana (a tobacco plant) [1] Psilocybin. GMO bacteria: Escherichia coli [2] GMO yeast: Baker’s yeast [3] [4] [5] THC. GMO bacteria: Zymomonas mobilis (used to produce tequila) [6] [7] [8] Tropane alkaloids: Hyoscyamine and scopolamine. GMO ...
In February 2009 the US FDA granted marketing approval for the first drug to be produced in genetically modified livestock. [18] The drug is called ATryn, which is antithrombin protein purified from the milk of genetically modified goats. Marketing permission was granted by the European Medicines Agency in August 2006. [19]
A significant environmental concern about using genetically modified crops is possible cross-breeding with related crops, giving them advantages over naturally occurring varieties. One example is a glyphosate-resistant rice crop that crossbreeds with a weedy relative, giving the weed a competitive advantage.
Genetically modified organisms refers to any plant, animal or microorganism that has been genetically altered, due to modern biotechnology like genetic engineering. Often, GMOs are labeled “GE ...
GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, comprise a large majority of the food much of the western world consumes on a daily basis. GMOs are defined by the Non-GMO project as "living organisms ...
In 2014, 181.5 million hectares of genetically modified crops were planted in 28 countries. Half of all GM crops planted were genetically modified soybeans, either for herbicide tolerance or insect resistance. Eleven countries grew modified soybean, with the USA, Brazil and Argentina accounting for 90% of the total hectarage.
Tisagenlecleucel is an adoptive cell transfer therapy for B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia; T cells from a person with cancer are removed, genetically engineered to make a specific T-cell receptor (a chimeric T cell receptor, or "CAR-T") that reacts to the cancer, and are administered back to the person.
Most vaccines consist of viruses that have been attenuated, disabled, weakened or killed in some way so that their virulent properties are no longer effective. A simple genetically modified vaccine, based on a thymidine kinase deficient mutant of pseudorabies virus was reportedly available as early as 2001 as a commercial vaccine to control Aujeszky's disease in Europe, North America and Japan.