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Food Safety Concerns and Biotechnology : Consumers' Attitudes to Genetically Modified Products in Urban China
(AgBioForum, 2004)
This article is based on a survey of consumer awareness and acceptance of genetically modified (GM) food products in China. In recent years, the Chinese government has grown more cautious about the risks of transgenic food ...
Evolution of Capacity for Institutionalized Management of Intellectual Property at International Agricultural Research Centers : A Strategic Case Study
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Intellectual property rights long remained a matter dealt with in vague terms of general policy at international agricultural research centers (IARCs). This situation changed at the turn of the century, when intellectual ...
Perceptions of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Cotton Varieties : A Case Study of the Cotton Industry in Gujarat, India
(AgBioForum, 2005)
The paper reports the findings of a study designed to consider the impact of the adoption of Bt cotton on markets, businesses, and institutional arrangements in India. Given that evidence to date suggests that widespread ...
An Innovation Market Approach to Analyzing Impacts of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Plant Biotechnology Industry
(AgBioForum, 2005)
This paper provides some insights into the impacts of firm concentration on research output by analyzing data on research output in the form of United States patents and field trials by private firms and merger activity ...
Intellectual Property Rights in a Changing Political Environment : Perspectives on the Types and Administration of Protection
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Intellectual property rights (IPRs) have been critically reassessed in recent years. This paper evaluates several of those analyses in detail. With regard to patent quality in the United States, analysis indicates that ...
Patterns of Public-Sector and Private-Sector Patenting in Agricultural Biotechnology
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Over the past 20 years, patenting in agricultural biotechnology has grown even faster than the rapid increase in US utility patents. Private firms, universities, and the federal government all increased patenting in ...
Biopharming and the Food System : Examining the Potential Benefits and Risks
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Biopharming (using crops as drug-producing bioreactors) offers tremendous economic and health benefits stimulated by improving biotechnology methods. However, these benefits must be weighed against the potential risks to ...
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Stocks of Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property
(AgBioForum, 2005)
A subset of patents owned by six large agricultural biotechnology companies is analyzed from the new Initiatives for Future Agriculture and Food Systems (IFAFS) Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database. ...
Comparing the Performance of Official and Unofficial Genetically Modified Cotton in India
(AgBioForum, 2005)
Genetically modified (GM) cotton was approved for commercial cultivation in 2002. Hybrids to date have carried the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) gene, which confers resistance to Lepidoptera and certain Coleoptera. As well ...
Adventures in Arabidopsis: Two projects investigating iron homeostasis in plants [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
In order to identify genes involved in iron homeostasis, a novel genetic screen was developed. Seed from a line transgenic for Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) driven by the Fer1 promoter, a gene whose mRNA expression ...
Sensitization of neuroblastoma to apoptosis mediated by oncogene-specific antisense peptide nucleic acid oligomers [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2004)
Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a major pathway by which chemotherapeutic drugs kill tumor cells. The B-cell lymphoma/leukemia-2 (bcl-2) and FLICE-inhibitory (FLIP) cellular oncogenes promote tumor cell survival, ...
Analysis of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibition by multiple RNA aptamers
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Rapidly increasing resistance to currently available HIV-1 drugs has prompted the exploration of therapies less susceptible to resistance development. Anti-HIV-1 treatments often target reverse transcriptase (RT), the viral ...
Genetic consequences of artificial selection on amino acid synthesis: Cysteine synthase and chorismate mutase
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Genetic diversity is crucial for progress in plant breeding as well as for adaptation to future
environmental challenges. Maize is the most genetically diverse crop species. Maize was
domesticated from teosinte about ...
Extinction of fear in the amygdala: Justification and development of a neuron model [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Anxiety disorders cause chronic reactions to a triggering event that disrupt pursuit of normal daily routines. Disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder or specific phobia can be ameliorated through the process of ...
Associations between 44 gene-associated markers and meat tenderness in Limousin steers [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Beef tenderness is a major factor influencing consumer satisfaction which can only be quantitatively measured using Warner-Bratzler Shear Force (WBSF) after carcasses are harvested and samples have been aged for fourteen ...
Organization of locomotor command systems in the lamprey brain [abstract]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
In vertebrates, command systems in the brain activate central pattern generators (CPGs) in the spinal cord to generate the basic pattern of locomotor activity, such as swimming or walking. Reticulospinal (RS) neurons in ...
From plant to the pump : how plant genome research at MU is helping to achieve bioenergy goals
(2009)
Part of America's answer to the current energy crisis could be fuels made from plants. Fuel made from plant materials, such as cellulose or corn kernels, not only holds promise of reducing our nation's dependence on foreign ...
Yeast 2-hybrid screening for proteins that recognize ACS6 C-terminus which is essential for ACS6 stability regulation [abstract]
(University of Missouri - Columbia Office of Undergraduate Research, 2006)
Regulation of rbST in the US
(AgBioForum, 2000)
In the United States (US) and European Union (EU) the regulatory and commercialization process for recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST) had widely differing outcomes. Although the regulatory process in both locations was ...
The regulation of rbST : the European case
(AgBioForum, 2000)
In December 1999, the Council of the European Union (EU) decided to definitively ban possible use of recombinant bovine somatotrophin (rBST) in the European Union. In support of its ban it invoked animal welfare reasons. ...