Transgenic crops can persist for ten years

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.nature.com)

Transgenic oilseed rape can survive and produce plants as much as a decade after it was sown, according to a study done in Sweden.

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Glowing Pig Passes Genes to Piglets

DanyC submitted, created time 11 months 4 weeks (news.nationalgeographic.com)

A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.
Besides,Tokyo's Meiji University last year successfully cloned a transgenic pig that carries the genes for human diabetes, while South Korean scientists cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays—an achievement they said could help develop cures for human genetic diseases

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Using work done to rapidly introduce a transgenic element in fruit flies, researchers hope to cure mosquitoes—and humans—of malaria.

fiona submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.sciam.com)

"By appropriating a genetic mechanism used by the common flour beetle—a pest that can stowaway in cereal boxes bound for kitchen cabinets and pantries—Caltech researchers helped a transgenic fruit fly take over a population. The work, if replicated in malaria-resistant mosquitoes, could help battle the debilitating parasitic disease that kills between 700,000 and 2.7 million people annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "

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Transgenic mosquitoes kill malaria -- but is this a Pandora's box?

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)

A team from Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins has successfully engineered a breed of mosquitoes that are completely resistant to the Plasmodium vivax parasite that causes malaria in humans. Experiments show that these mosquitoes, if released into the wild, would outcompete its natural brethren, possibly driving malaria into a much-needed extinction.

I'm a bit wary. Humans have tried to introduce animals into new environments before -- remember Bufo marinus? -- and it doesn't always work out so well

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