http://www.bioscienceresource.org/ The Bioscience Resource Project provides independent news, commentary and information for the agriculture-related biological sciences including biotechnology, ecology, plant biology and food science. en-uk http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/USDAofficialsDaryllRay.php Have China and India's food requirements really contributed to recent food price rises? http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news19.php New studies have implications for aquatic environments but do they also refute the principle of substantial equivalence? http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news18.php Ten year persistence of transgenic oilseed rape volunteers from Swedish experiment. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news17.php Congressional investigation underway. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc10Indiascolourlessrevolution.php The replacement of traditional cooking oils is a result of false health advertising and the power of the global food chain. It is a disaster for local agricultural systems, Indian farmers and consumer health. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news16.php A report two and a half years in the making condemns the agro-industrial complex. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc9HowthesciencemediafailedtheIAASTD.php You may not have heard of it, but a potential landmark document in the fields of development and agriculture (called by some the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of agriculture) is currently in the late stages of reaching fruition. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news15.php New study sparks call for nano-specific food regulations http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc8.php Commentary by E. Ann Clark of the University of Guelph, Canada, Department of Plant Agriculture http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news14.php The pan-European Geoparkinson study reinforces previous associations between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news13.php Washington, DC December 14, 2007 - A broad coalition of consumer, farmer, and animal welfare organizations today applauded passage of a provision in the Senate's Farm Bill (H.R. 2419) that would delay the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) endorsement of the use of food from cloned animals. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc6.php Irina Ermakova has (unpublished) studies suggesting rats and their offspring are harmed by RR soy. Nature Biotechnology's recent and rather unusual interview with her disguises a deeply embarrassing and highly significant fact: that, contrary to the suggestions of the critics assembled by Nature Biotechnology, there are no reliable studies with which she can be contradicted. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/commentaries/brc7.php The Bioscience Resource Project's major new analysis of virus-resistant transgenic plants is published today in the journal Molecular Plant Pathology. It is entitled: Transcomplementation and synergism: implications for viral transgenes? Virus-resistant transgenic plants typically encode full-length viral proteins. Our analysis proposes that, since viral proteins can typically be used by other, often unrelated, viruses, that these non-target viruses will frequently take advantage of them to enhance their own replication and spread. This process, known as transcomplementation, is well known in transgenic plants which are not virus-resistant and we show that it can be expected to apply to transgenic virus-resistant plants. The implications of this new analysis are discussed, along with possible preventative measures. http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news12.php Impartiality of Nature Biotechnology questioned over 'interview' with Irina Ermakova http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news10.php British Food Journal paper branded "a flagrant fraud" http://www.bioscienceresource.org/news/news09.php Toxins in transgenic crop byproducts may affect headwater stream ecosystems Rosi-Marshall et al. PNAS.2007; 104: 16204-16208