The salmon’s approval would help open a path for companies and academic scientists developing other genetically engineered animals, like cattle resistant to mad cow disease or pigs that could supply healthier bacon. Next in line behind the salmon for possible approval would probably be the “enviropig,” developed at a Canadian university, which has less phosphorus pollution in its manure.
The salmon was developed by a company called AquaBounty Technologies and would be raised in fish farms. It is an Atlantic salmon that contains a growth hormone gene from a Chinook salmon as well as a genetic on-switch from the ocean pout, a distant relative of the salmon.
in ny times
segunda-feira, 28 de junho de 2010
terça-feira, 22 de junho de 2010
Vi hoje uma apresentação da Eleanor Ostrom sobre o problema dos baldios (genericamente, os comuns). Já aqui os referimos, a propósito de Hardin, e da anterior Climate Lecture com Nicholas Stern. Num próximo poste entrarei em detalhes sobre o que se passou e o que ficou registado, inclusivé um achego ao (falso) problema das escolas com poucos alunos no interior e aos super-polícias.
Mais actual não poderia ser...
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