The resulting GMOs are therefore resistant to some insect pests.

Transgenic organisms, a subset of GMOs, are organisms that have inserted DNA from a different species.

GMOs are the constituents of genetically modified foods.

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

There are differences in the regulation of GMOs between countries, with some of the most marked differences occurring between the USA and Europe.

Although GMOs are excluded from organic farming, there is concern that the pollen from genetically modified crops is increasingly penetrating organic and heirloom seed stocks, making it difficult, if not impossible, to keep these genomes from entering the organic food supply.

Critics of both are concerned that these large businesses will leverage their economic and political power to defeat attempts to regulate or restrain the spread of genetic engineering in agriculture, or leverage intellectual property rights in GMOs to unfair advantage over their competitors, against the interests of users and consumers of their products, and to the detriment of the environment.

Genetically modified foods ( GM foods, or biotech foods ) are foods derived from genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ), such as genetically modified crops or genetically modified fish.

There are differences in the regulation of GMOs between countries, with some of the most marked differences occurring between the USA and Europe.

A large number of varieties can also often be dramatically reduced when commercial varieties ( including GMOs ) are introduced into traditional farming systems.

A large number of varieties can also often be dramatically reduced when commercial varieties ( including GMOs ) are introduced into traditional farming systems.

Genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) and products derived from GMOs are explicitly excluded from organic production methods.

This can be used to create transgenic organisms, also known as genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ).

Topics addressed were wide and varied, for example including relating to: agricultural research, AIDS, antibiotic resistance, alternative medicine regulation, bioethics, biodiversity, biotechnology, careers in biology ( both for school leavers and at the research level ), climate change, GMOs, public understanding of science, national park formation, renewable energy impact, research assessment, safety in biological fieldwork, safety in laboratories, xenotransplantation ... among many others.

When Chevènement decided not to run, he publicly, and controversially, declined to support Royal's bid for the presidency, citing differences over nuclear energy, GMOs and stem-cell research.

* SIGMEA research on the biosafety of GMOs

MST claimed to have destroyed the research facility to protest the government's support for the extensive use of GMOs supplied by transnational corporations in agriculture: Already in 2003, Lula had authorized the legal using and sale of GM soybeans, which led MSt's Stedile to label him a " transgenic politician ".

On October 19, 1998, participants at IFOAM's 12th Scientific Conference issued the Mar del Plata Declaration, where more than 600 delegates from over 60 countries voted unanimously to exclude the use of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) in food production and agriculture.

According to the authors, " Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex-and often dose-dependent.

Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, although different between the 3 GMOs.

study and concluded that it ".. presents no admissible scientific element likely to ascribe any haematological, hepatic or renal toxicity to the three re-analysed GMOs.

The article on genetic engineering focuses on the history and methods of genetic engineering, and on applications of genetic engineering and of GMOs.

* Bernard Stiegler, " Take Care " — A philosophical approach to the question of GMOs and their relation to human agricultural history.

The article on GMOs focuses on what organisms have been genetically engineered and for what purposes.

International trade restrictions limit the availability of GMOs to certain countries.

In late 2006, the Correctional Tribunal of Carcassonne, France, ordered two directors of Monsanto subsidiary Asgrow to pay a € 15, 000 fine related to their knowledge of the presence of unauthorized GMOs in bags of seeds imported by Asgrow on 13 April 2000.

Robin travels to India, Mexico, Argentina, and Paraguay to see how Monsanto's genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) have affected local farmers using it for their crops.

Mexico, having banned GMOs, is trying to limit contamination and crossbreeding from subsidized U. S. GMO corn imported through the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) for eating.

Critics of GMOs and corporations say that these rights give already powerful corporations an even greater advantage, and in a way which disrupts millennia-old agricultural practices.

There has been a recent resurgence of Green Revolution ideas, especially with the large-scale support of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) and high-yield-variety agriculture.

This article focuses on history and methods of genetic engineering, and on applications of genetic engineering and of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ).

Since the 1970s, public awareness, environmental sciences, ecology, and technology have advanced to include modern focus points like ozone depletion, global climate change, acid rain, and the potentially harmful genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ).

These tests can be based on screening genetic elements ( like p35S, tNos, pat, or bar ) or event-specific markers for the official GMOs ( like Mon810, Bt11, or GT73 ).

The array-based method combines multiplex PCR and array technology to screen samples for different potential GMOs, combining different approaches ( screening elements, plant-specific markers, and event-specific markers ).

Labelling is also required for products that have been derived from GMOs, but where the GM content might no longer be detectable ( such as soy oil produced from genetically modified soy ).

Finally there were great advances in plant and animal breeding, such as crop hybridization, artificial insemination of livestock, and GMOs ( genetically modified organisms ).

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Then, with staring eyes and lips drawn thin, Miriam said to the young woman, `` You are ugly -- uglier than you used to be, and you were always very ugly.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

The decision maker who acts for the community as a whole must decide whether the objectives pursued and the methods used are appropriate to public policy regarding cultural groups.

his broad but little used investigative powers are confirmed.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

One cannot help wondering whether Molotov and the rest of the `` anti-party group '' are not being used as China's whipping-boys by Khrushchev and his faithful followers.

Proceeds realized from these pageants are used by the Jaycees to help support their various youth, health, welfare and community betterment activities throughout the state.

Since conventional methods are insensitive at the low frequencies of these molecular transitions, the paramagnetic resonance method is being used instead.

The funds recouped by reductions in item 12 above are used: first, to increase the unadjusted allotments to the specified minimum in those States where the unadjusted allotment is less than the minimum allotment ( item 13 above ) ; ;

Solid concrete blocks, relatively heavy and dense, are used for this shelter.

If they are used, the walls and roof should be 10 inches thick to give the same protection as the 8-inch solid concrete blocks.

It is thick, much like an egg plant's skin, so that poison sprays, if they are used, present no hazard to the consumer.

Such locks are nearly always used where the switch points `` face '' oncoming traffic.

Derails -- mechanical track devices that actually guide the wheels off the rails if a train passes a `` stop '' signal -- are used in many instances.

However, some formulas are used more than others.

The compression ratio arrived at with the formula will be the same regardless of whether cubic inches or cubic centimeters are used.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

Photos of Conference Rooms and the General Assembly Hall can be made when these rooms are not being used for meetings.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

After the frames and transom are set up on the jig and temporarily braced, a piece of three-inch-wide mahogany ( only widths will be given since the 13/16-inch thickness is used throughout ) is butted between frames one and two below the line of the keelson.

One-inch, No. 10 screws are used in both cases.

Glue and 1-1/2-inch, No. 10 screws are used.

Four pieces are used.