Sex Hormone Sprays Halted over Cities But…
California embarks on an even more alarming pesticide eradication policy for a harmless moth
Sam Burcher 15th August 2008 |
Exposed: Europe’s GM-Hype in Times of Food and Fuel Crisis
The pro-GM brigade has been losing no time in exploiting the current global food and fuel crisis and the high price of animal feed to promote GM as the solution in the mainstream media
Caroline Robinson 6th August 2008 |
Terminator Mosquitoes to Control Dengue?
Why take a dangerous, costly, and untested high tech option when safe, effective, and affordable alternatives are available.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th May 2008 |
Deadly gift from Monsanto to India
To follow up on your articles, I enclose photographs of mealy bugs infested cotton plants in the demonstration plots of different seed companies in Vidarbha: Ganga Kavari, Paras Bbhrahma, and Banny. All of the plots have the Bollgard label. These mealy bugs have never been in our region on any plants before Bt cotton was introduced.
Ram Kalaspurkar 12th May 2008 |
Full House for Food Futures Now
It was the warmest day of the year so far and inside the sumptuously decorated Jubilee Room in the House of Commons there was barely standing room. The capacity audience were gathered for the launch of the much acclaimed ISIS report.
Sam Burcher 1st May 2008 |
Agrobacterium & Morgellons Disease, A GM Connection?
Preliminary findings suggest a link between Morgellons Disease and Agrobacterium, a soil bacterium extensively manipulated and used in making GM crops; has genetic engineering created a new epidemic?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 28th April 2008 |
Horizontal Gene Transfer from GMOs Does Happen
Recent evidence confirms that transgenic DNA does jump species to bacteria and even plant and animals, as some of us had predicted
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 10th March 2008 |
Letter in Support of Poland's GMO Free Status
Poland announced it would stick to its ban on 12 February 2008
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th February 2008 |
Support French Scientist Telling the Truth About GMOs
Dr. Christian Vélot, has lost his funding. There is a committee of support for Vélot and they have organised a petition that has attracted 9288 signatures as of 26 January 2008. You can sign it on line. Please also send the link to your friends
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th February 2008 |
Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed
Letter to Nature Biotechnology in response to the article defending the "new format" feature on Ermakova's findings of adverse health and reproductive impacts on rats fed genetically modified (GM) soya, and on the validity of the "scientific criticisms" of her work.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th January 2008 |
More on Science and Scientist Abused
Dr. Erina Ermakova, senior scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose work we featured was approached by an editor of Nature Biotechnology to co-author an article describing her work. This turned out to be a scandalous attempt to destroy her reputation and discredit her work .Below is the first press coverage in Switzerland. The matter is still unresolved, so please circulate widely and write your own letter to Nature Biotechnology
Roland Fischer 12th November 2007 |
GM-Free Europe Beginning?
A remarkable sequence of events since ISIS’ European Parliament Briefing Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe [1] may mean the beginning of the end of genetically modified crops in Europe.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 9th November 2007 |
UK Government's Dirty GM Secrets
UK Government funding genetically modified (GM) crop projects at tens of millions of pound and colluding with a biotech company to ease its GM field trials
Dr Mae-Wan Ho 6th November 2007 |
Udder Disregard for Safety. GM Tobacco for Preventing Mastitis in Cows.
The USDA is promoting a potentially disastrous strategy for controlling mastitis in cows that could enhance a host of other diseases and create new disease agents
Prof. Joe Cummins 2nd October 2007 |
Scientists and MEPs for a GM free Europe
Independent scientists, MEPs, farmers and citizens united at the European Parliament condemning GMOs; the European Food Safety Authority to be sued
Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 21st June 2007 |
Ready for Dicamba Ready GM crops?
Turning an environmental disaster into a real catastrophe
Prof. Joe Cummins 20th June 2007 |
How to Stop Bird Flu Instead
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explains why the vaccine-antiviral model doesn't work and why a new paradigm is needed to provide health for all
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th May 2007 |
GM Protein for Ice Cream Not Ready for Commercial Use
The advisory committee has made considerable effort towards assuring the safety of a genetically modified ice-structuring protein intended for use in edible ices, but large gaps still remain
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th April 2007 |
GM Food Nightmare Unfolding in the Regulatory Sham
Regulators such as the European Food Safety Authority and UK's Food Standards Agency have been ignoring the precautionary principle, manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence piling up against the safety of GM food and feed.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 9th March 2007 |
GM Food Nightmare Unfolding and the Regulatory Sham
How our regulators are ignoring the precautionary principle, manipulating and corrupting science, sidestepping the law, and helping to promote GMOs in the face of massive public opposition and damning evidence piling up against the safety of GM food and feed
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th February 2007 |
The Real Bioinformatics Revolution
How a daring hypothesis may rescue bioinformatics from masses of undecipherable and hence useless genome sequences and turn biology and medicine upside down
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2nd February 2007 |
Cloned BSE-Free Cows, Not Safe Nor Proper Science
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins go behind the smokescreen to expose the project which would perpetuate the intensive animal husbandry that created mad cow disease in the first place and is far from safe or ethical in terms of animal welfare
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Prof Joe Cummins 31st January 2007 |
Is FDA Promoting or Regulating Cloned Meat and Milk?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins find cloned meat and milk unethical and unsafe.
This article has been submitted to the FDA. Please circulate widely to your elected representatives
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Prof. Joe Cummins 26th January 2007 |
Yeasts Targeted for High Ethanol Production
Metabolic engineering of yeasts for high ethanol biofuel production may generate toxic metabolites and pose unique threats to agriculture
Prof. Joe Cummins 12th January 2007 |
GM Grapevines & Toxic Wines
Synthetic genes, toxins and cyanide gas are some of what to expect from wines on your dinner table
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10th January 2007 |
'Self-Cloned' Wine Yeasts Not Necessarily Safe
Yeast genetics is more precise, but altering the expression of a single native yeast gene can change the entire metabolic network in an unexpected way
Prof. Joe Cummins 8th January 2007 |
GM Wine Sold Unlabelled in the United States
Prof. Joe Cummins exposes the potential hazards of the GM wine yeast that has been approved as safe by the US Food and Drug Administration and advises against drinking US wines
Prof. Joe Cummins 6th January 2007 |
Making the World GM-Free & Sustainable
Keynote Lecture to Wise Traditions Conference, Weston A Price Foundation, 11 November 2006
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 5th December 2006 |
GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reviews the latest findings on the hazards of GM food and feed amid a continuing campaign of denial and misrepresentation by our regulators
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th November 2006 |
GM Crops and Microbes for Health or Public Health Hazards?
Food crops genetically modified to overproduce single nutrients could be public health hazards as overdose of many single nutritional factors are known to be toxic
Genetically modifying natural gut bacteria could turn them into pathogens pre-adapted to invade the human gut
Dr.Mae-Wan Ho & Prof. Joe Cummins 16th November 2006 |
GM Food Animals Coming
Foods derived from genetically modified animals are likely to be contaminated by potent vaccines, immune regulators, and growth hormones, as well as nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria that have the potential to create pathogens and to trigger cancer
Dr Mae-Wan Ho & Prof Joe Cummins 15th November 2006 |
The Inside Story of BSE
Prof. Peter Saunders reviews
The Politics of BSE , Richard Packer, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2006. ISBN 1-4039-8529-4
Prof. Peter Saunders 7th November 2006 |
Genetically Modified Food Animals Coming
Foods derived from genetically modified animals are far from safe. They are likely to be contaminated by potent vaccines, immune regulators, and growth hormones, as well as nucleic acids, viruses, and bacteria that have the potential to create pathogens and to trigger cancer.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th September 2006 |
GM Crops for Health?
New genetically modified crops are being promoted for nutritional or health benefits. Health depends on a balance of macro and micronutrients, cofactors and vitamins, best achieved by organic agricultural practices. Overdose of many single nutritional factors can be toxic, and hence food crops genetically modified to overproduce single nutrients could be public health hazards.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th September 2006 |
What's Really Behind the Bird Flu Outbreaks?
Wild birds, farmyard chickens and people are the victims of bird flu not the perpetrators. Intensive poultry farming and globalised poultry trade are to blame for creating and spreading the virus; but what really causes bird flu outbreaks?
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny 19th September 2006 |
USDA Proposes to Deregulate Its Own Transgenic Plum
Should not be approved, major gaps in risk assessment
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 11th July 2006 |
GM Protein in Ice Cream
Genetically modified fish antifreeze protein is potentially able to cause inflammation and should not be approved without comprehensive tests
Prof. Joe Cummins, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Malcolm Hooper 4th July 2006 |
GM Probiotic Bacteria in Gene Therapy
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho repeat their call for a ban on GM probiotics as the first clinical trial has been carried out
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd July 2006 |
More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops
Further evidence has emerged on the link between common transgenic proteins and serious allergic reactions while regulators turn a deaf ear and approve yet more planting
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 18th April 2006 |
Plant Steroids in Transgenic Plants Safe for Humans?
There are too many similarities between plant and animal steroids for them to be presumed safe
Prof. Joe Cummins 30th March 2006 |
GM Ban Long Overdue
Dozens Ill & Five Deaths in the Philippines
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 6th February 2006 |
ISP Reply to Canadian Food Inspection Agency
On 27 November 2005, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho wrote to a number of national and international agencies on behalf of the Independent Science Panel [1] regarding the powerful immune response in test animals fed genetically modified (GM) peas
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4th January 2006 |
Recombinant Cervical Cancer Vaccines
Merck Company released the results of clinical studies on a recombinant vaccine Gardasil in October 2005, claiming 100 percent efficacy in preventing cervical cancer from human papilloma virus (HPV) strains 16 and 18, believed to cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers
Prof. Joe Cummins 20th December 2005 |
Reply to Questionnaire Codex Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants
For Independent Science Panel
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 19th December 2005 |
GM Contamination Accelerating
No Co-Existence Possible
Untried and untested GM crops are out of the bottle even in the UK where no GM crops are commercially grown
Rhea Gala 16th December 2005 |
Field-Testing a DNA Canine Melanoma Vaccine
A proposal that uses 'confidential business information' to conceal the most critical aspects with regard to safety while dismissing genuine safety concerns
Prof. Joe Cummins 13th December 2005 |
Transgenic Pea that Made Mice Ill
Raises serious safety concerns on transgenic proteins in general that must be addressed while a ban on all GM food and feed is imposed
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th November 2005 |
Deregulation of Glyphosate Tolerant Creeping Bentgrass Out of Question
This article has been submitted to the USDA on behalf of the Independent Science Panel
Prof. Joe Cummins 7th November 2005 |
Outsourcing Ecological and Health Risks & Reducing Scientists to Bio-coolies for Industry
Dr. Vandana Shiva condemns India's New Biotechnology Development Strategy
Dr. Vandana Shiva 23rd September 2005 |
Field-testing Bacterial Pathogens with Antibiotic Resistance Genes
University researchers have applied to the US Environment Protection Agency to field test bacterial pathogens and fungus living inside plants carrying antibiotic resistance marker genes. These should be strenuously contested.
Prof. Joe Cummins 30th August 2005 |
Living Test for Mad Cow Disease
A new diagnostic test that claims to detect Mad Cow Disease in living animals before symptoms appear also raises questions on the cause of the disease
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd August 2005 |
GMOs and Human Health
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho told the People's Health Assembly that GM is proving bad for health because it goes against the grain of the new genetics science
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th August 2005 |
Cover-up over GM DNA in milk
Syngenta's GM maize linked to dead cows linked to GM DNA in milk and scientist involved in what appears to be a major cover-up on behalf of big dairy producer.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th July 2005 |
Genetically Modified Probiotics Should Be Banned
Beneficial bacteria living in the human gut are now subject to extensive genetic modification that could turn them into
pathogens. In view of our vast ignorance of gut ecology, we cannot allow genetically modified probiotic bactena to be used
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st July 2005 |
US Foster Children Used in AIDS Drugs Tests
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded anti-HIV drugs trials on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, often without the legal protection for the children required in some states, exposing the children to the risks of research and serious side-effects of toxic drugs.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th June 2005 |
No to GM Smallpox!
Non-governmental organizations around the world are urging the World Health Organization to block a dangerous proposal that would allow the smallpox virus to be genetically engineered, and to ensure that remaining stocks of the virus are destroyed within two years
Lim Li Ching 2nd May 2005 |
Knotty but Nice: Spectacular Anti-Cancer Agents in Tree Knots
Prof. Joe Cummins reports on further anti-cancer chemicals that are found in common plant sources
Prof. Joe Cummins 29th April 2005 |
Ban GM Probiotics
Beneficial bacteria living in the human gut are now subject to extensive genetic modification that could turn them into pathogens. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho call for a ban on releases of GM probiotics
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd April 2005 |
Controversy over Gene Therapy 'Breakthrough'
A 'precision' gene therapy turns out to have significant off-target effects
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 5th April 2005 |
No Biosecurity without Biosafety
Ensuring the safe use of genetic engineering is much more important than preventing or defending the nation from bioterrorist attacks
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th March 2005 |
Glyphosate Toxic & Roundup Worse
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins call for urgent regulatory review of the most widely used herbicide in the light of new scientific evidence
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 7th March 2005 |
ISP Bid to Stop US "Rubber-Stamping" Transgene Contamination
ISP submitted strong objections to US's proposed change in policy that would allow companies to contaminate the food supply with unauthorized test crops
Mae-Wan Ho, Sam Burcher and Rhea Gala 27th January 2005 |
Are Transgenic Proteins Allergenic?
Some two-thirds of all transgenic proteins have similarities to known allergens. Should we worry?
Drs. Mae-Wan Ho, Arpad Pusztai, Susan Bardocz and Prof. Joe Cummins 5th January 2005 |
DNA in GM Food & Feed
The government's scientific advisory committees have repeatedly tried to reassure the public that there is nothing to fear from genetically modified (GM) DNA, but critics disagree.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 17th June 2004 |
Superbug with Anthrax Genes
The Bacillus species causing anthrax and food poisoning are closely related to each other and to a third, Bacillus thuringiensis, whose toxin genes are extensively exploited to create genetically modified Bt-crops. ISIS has warned of the potential for dangerous recombinants to emerge; such a recombinant has now been identified. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins caution against growing Bt crops, especially in the Third World
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 16th June 2004 |
Low Lignin GM Trees and Forage Crops
Prof. Joe Cummins explains why genetically modifying trees and forage crops to reduce their lignin content could make them more susceptible to pests. Other issues related to the GM construct, such as genetic instability, the persistence of antibiotic resistance marker genes in the ecosystem and biosafety in general, have also not been sufficiently considered.
Prof. Joe Cummins 5th June 2004 |
Pharm Crop Products In US Market
Dangerous GM pharmaceutical crops have been produced and marketed in the United States for at least two years, unbeknownst to the public, via a gaping loophole in the regulatory process
Prof. Joe Cummins 26th May 2004 |
Bio-remediation Without Caution
A bacterium living inside plants could be improved for cleaning up environmental pollutants without genetic modification. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reveal that this seemingly beneficial development is beset with danger, as the bacterium concerned is a known pathogen
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th May 2004 |
GM Food & Feed Not Fit for "Man or Beast"
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins review some of the scientific evidence behind a series of recent scandals involving the safety of GM food and feed. They expose fatal flaws in the regulatory process and highlight how Europe is in danger of approving GM varieties that are genetically unstable and hence illegal as well as unsafe. They demand a full enquiry into the abuse of science that has allowed GM crops not fit for human or animal consumption to enter our food chain.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Prof.Joe Cummins 7th May 2004 |
Cancer Promoting Transgenic Rice
Transgenic rice containing human insulin-like growth factor, known to promote cancer, is being developed government-funded academic researchers in Canada for commercial production. Prof. Joe Cummins exposes yet another gross violation of biosafety
Prof. Joe Cummins 9th March 2004 |
New GM Toxin Looms over Our Food
Prof. Joe Cummins issues advance warning of new GM toxin from soil bacterium that's to be incorporated into our food crops
Prof. Joe Cummins 2nd December 2003 |
The GM National Debate Farce
'What debate?' Asks Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10th September 2003 |
Biodefence Contravenes Biosafety
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports on mounting tension between civil society watchdogs and secrecy surrounding biodefence labs, which provides a test case for how much civil society is entitled to know about biodefence research
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th August 2003 |
Bio-Defence Mania Grips United States
Suddenly, bio-defence is the buzzword in hundreds of universities, government laboratories and health departments across the United States. Does it make the United States and the world a safer place?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th July 2003 |
Vaccines, Gulf-War Syndrome & Bio-defence
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Malcolm Hooper report on evidence linking vaccines to Gulf-War Syndrome and the controversial US Department of Defence program to immunize millions of service personnel against anthrax
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Malcolm Hooper 11th July 2003 |
Endogenous Viruses and Chronic Disease
Viruses resident in the human genome may have evolved from jumping genes that increasingly appears to be necessary for the survival of the organism. Some virologists think that we may be creating a range of debilitating chronic diseases by failing to take them seriously into account
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Malcolm Hooper 9th July 2003 |
Organics for Health
A Chapter from the Independent Science Report, The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World www.indsp.org
Here's some of the evidence that Sir John Krebs, Head of UK's Food Standards Agency refuses to acknowledge in his persistent denigration of organic agriculture
ISIS 4th July 2003 |
SARS Virus Genetically Engineered?
The mystery surrounding the SARS virus deepens. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho raises further questions on whether genetic engineering could have contributed to creating it
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th June 2003 |
Dynamic Genomics
Evidence has emerged that the cocktail of drugs and environmental hazards to which Gulf War veterans have been exposed all target a special part of the genome thats responsible for the immune response. The consequences are startling, and may have far-reaching relevance for diagnosis and prevention of other chronic diseases
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 18th June 2003 |
SARS and Genetic Engineering?
The complete sequence of the SARS virus is now available, confirming it is a new coronavirus unrelated to any previously known. Has genetic engineering contributed to creating it?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 25th April 2003 |
GM Microbes Invade North America
While the attention of the world is focused on genetically modified (GM) crops, GM microbes have been released for at least six years with little or no public awareness or debate
Prof. Joe Cummins 24th April 2003 |
Death by DNA Shuffling
Geneticists can now create millions of new viruses and bacteria in a matter of minutes in the laboratory. And there is no regulation to stop them from being effectively released.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 17th April 2003 |
Bio-Terrorism and SARS
The world has been whipped up into hysteria over terrorist attacks and 'weapons of mass destruction'. Governments want to ban the publication of sensitive scientific research results, and a group of major life sciences editors and authors has concurred. Some even suggest an international body to police research and publication.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th April 2003 |
Transgenic Meat Scandal
How the United States regulatory agencies allowed its universities to pass potentially poisonous transgenic meat to the millions, thus reflecting badly on both the regulatory agencies and the university scientists.
Prof. Joe Cummins 13th February 2003 |
Allergenic GM Papaya Scandal
How Prof. Joe Cummins uncovered the great scandal of how US regulatory agencies approved a GM papaya even though it carries a viral gene known to be a potential allergen
Prof. Joe Cummins 2nd February 2003 |
British Doctors Call for Halt to GM Crop Trials
The British Medical Association (BMA), which has a membership of over 120,000 and represents more than 80% of British doctors, has called for a moratorium on GM crop trials in Scotland.
Lim Li Ching 3rd December 2002 |
Safe Gene Therapy?
The first documented case of cancer from gene therapy has no sooner been announced than the hype of 'safe' alternatives begin
Prof. Joe Cummins 22nd October 2002 |
Putting Genes in Chloroplast Not "Environmentally Friendly"
Regulatory agencies and the public have traditionally entrusted the scientists developing new technologies to conduct rigorous evaluation and research of their products to ensure safety to human health and the environment. But one biotech CEO bluntly said, "we not in the business of making problems for ourselves", which is why critique by scientists outside industry is sorely needed
Dr. David Quist 21st October 2002 |
Predicted Hazard of Gene Therapy A Reality
ISIS was almost a lone voice warning of cancer from foreign genes inserting into the genome in 'gene therapy' and other exposures to transgenic DNA. Regrettably, this has now become reality
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th October 2002 |
Acrylamide In Cooked Foods: The Glyphosate Connection
Recent health alert over toxic acrylamide in cooked foods is linked to glyphosate, Prof. Joe Cummins reveals
Prof. Joe Cummins 1st August 2002 |
GM DNA in Human Gut Underestimated
UK’s Food Standards Agency dismissed its new research findings that GM DNA in food has transferred to bacteria in the human gut. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reveals how the experiment was designed to bias against positive findings, so the actual transfer of GM DNA could be much more extensive.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 21st July 2002 |
Latest Exposé on the Fluid Genome
Russian scientists suggest that circulating DNA from dead cells are taken in by living cells in order to replace mutated genes with good copies. What are the implications for the safety of transgenic DNA?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 2nd May 2002 |
Doubts Deepen over Safety of AIDS Vaccines
Another key AIDS vaccine is abandoned before phase III trial. This latest setback comes at the end of a string of failures in developing vaccines that may be worse than useless
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st May 2002 |
GM & Bio-weapons in the post-Genomics Era
The possibilities for more lethal bio-weapons have increased in the post-genomics era. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho calls on scientists to take responsibility for the biosafety of their own research at the biosafety conference in The Hague (April 22-26, 2002)
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 30th April 2002 |
Scrambled genomes in human gene therapy and transgenic plants
Human gene therapy is usually considered separate and distinct from genetic modification (GM) of crops, but this is misleading.
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th March 2002 |
Poison Pharm Crops Near You
Pharm crops are crops genetically modified to produce gene products that are pharmaceutically active. Such bio-pharmaceuticals are frequently active in minute quantities and expensive to produce in cell cultures or whole animals, and so the companies turn to crop plants.
Prof. Joe Cummins 7th March 2002 |
Diabetes Not in the Genes
Type 2 or late onset diabetes has been reaching epidemic proportions in industrialised countries. Diabetes now costs Britain's National Health Service nearly a tenth of its budget. Instead of addressing the environmental causes, huge efforts are invested into identifying 'susceptibility genes'
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th February 2002 |
Genomics for health
Despite heroic efforts to keep up the hype, prospects for genomics – information gathering around genomes, genes and proteins look bleaker than ever before, and for good scientific reasons
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 20th January 2002 |
US Foodborne Illnesses Up Two to Ten Fold
Genetic engineered food has increased enormously in the United States since 1994. Figures released at the end of 1999 showed a two to tenfold rise in foodrelated illnesses compared with 1994. A Swedish study throws new light and raise important questions on the safety of genetic engineered food.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd November 2001 |
GM & Biological Weapons, Scientists Call for International Watchdog
In the immediate aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, US and UK government officials have warned of the possibility of further attacks with chemical and biological weapons [1]. This underscores the urgent need to bring biological weapons under international peaceful control.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd October 2001 |
GM AIDS Virus More Deadly
Researchers have been creating one deadly virus after another in the laboratory, and the latest is ‘SHIV’, a hybrid between the human and monkey AIDS virus containing human interleukin genes that suppress immune response against viruses.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 19th July 2001 |
Europe to Demand Strict Molecular Characterisation for GMOs?
New 'eventspecific' molecular characterisation devised by Belgian government scientists highly important in the context food safety control . Monsanto's Roundup Ready GM soya is found to have scrambled and unknown genes. Is it legal? Is it safe?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 22nd May 2001 |
Genetic Engineering Superviruses II
Can AIDS vaccines generate new viral and bacterial pathogens and trigger cancer, on account of a recombination hotspot in the AIDS viral gene
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd March 2001 |
E. coli 0157-H7 and Genetic Engineering
The foodborne pathogen E. coliO157H7 has been sequenced. Dr. MaeWan Ho asks whether genetic engineering might have contributed towards its emergence.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 21st March 2001 |
MRC Acknowledges GM Food Risks
The UK Medical Research Council has established an Expert Group to consider the risks of GM foods and the feasibility of human studies to assess the risks. Their Report, published in June this year, goes beyond what many other groups have done in acknowledging that GM foods do pose special risks.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Angela Ryan & Prof. Peter Saunders 10th December 2000 |
Eating Cauliflower Mosaic Virus infected vegetables does not prove that Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Promoter in genetically modified crops is safe
Recently researchers from the John Innes Centre JIC for plant research in Great Britain have again claimed that the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus CaMV promoter used to genetically modify virtually all of the transgenic crops now marketed or being tested for marketing has been proven to be safe for human consumption because humans have been consuming virus infected crucifers for a long time.
Prof. Joe Cummins |
