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A team of scientists from Britain’s University of York began the study by growing a number of arabidopsis plants (a type of weed) in soil laced with TNT. Observing plants’ progress in the contaminated soil, the researchers noticed that one plant seemed to thrive. They further discovered that plant was lacking the MDHAR6 gene. The […]
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X-plant: ‘Mutant’ digests TNT & could be key to contaminated land clean-up, study finds
September 4th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: arabidopsis plants, contaminated land, contaminated soil, plant biologist, TNT, University of York 
No Comments »Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs. “Flawed Processes of GMO Risk Assessment”
September 2nd, 2015 Awake Goy By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my PhD. Into these plants we were putting DNA from various foreign organisms, such as viruses and bacteria. I was not, at […]
