The potential of genetically modified plants to meet the requirements of growing population is not being recognized at present. This is a consequence of concerns raised by the public and the critics about their applications and release into the environment. These include effect on human health and environment, biosafety, world trade monopolies, trustworthiness of public institutions, integrity ...

The present study investigates the structure of attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food. A total of 431 respondents completed a questionnaire measuring their overall attitude, cognition and affect towards GM food. A model with distinct positive and negative, affective and cognitive components and a separate factor for perceived risk and worry best accounted for the data. Negative--but ...

In a recent very interesting paper on Indian Indigenous Drugs (The Held for Research in Indian Indigenous Drugs?by R. N. Chopra, m.a., m.dv Lieut.-Gol., i.m.s., The Patna Journal of Medicine, Vol. Ill, No. 3, July, 1928), Col. Chopra has discussed the chemical, pharmacological and clinical aspects of the subject and has also pointed out a few of the economic and scientific aspects of the questi...

Art ic le History

Over the years, genetically modified organism (GMO) development and regulation in China have regularly attracted international attention. In the early 1990s, China became the first country to commercialize a genetically modified (GM) crop with planting of a virus-resistant transgenic tobacco variety on a relatively large scale, while other parts of the world were debating about the risks of GMO...

1. The latest release statistics from the two major biological databases shown in Figure 1 show that the trend for information generation has been linear in the case of protein, but exponential for the addition of sequence data. This disparity is largely due to the method of data acquisition (DNA sequencing has, for the last five or so years been largely automated), but the trend is obvious in ...

The development of novel foods produced through agricultural biotechnology is a complex three-stage process: gene discovery, line selection, and product advancement to commercialization. The safety of genetically modified foods is an integral part of the overall developmental process throughout all of the stages. In the discovery stage, the safety of the gene, its source, and the gene products ...