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FDA a Big Winner In ’05 Bush Budget

February 9, 2004 Comments Off Posted in: General Biotechnology

FDA a Big Winner In ’05 Bush Budget “One of the biggest winners in President Bush’s proposed 2005 budget is the Food and Drug Administration, which would receive an almost 9 percent increase in funding to expand a ‘food defense’ program, to respond to the mad cow disease crisis and to continue construction of its […]

Plants to uncover landmines

February 5, 2004 Comments Off Posted in: General Biotechnology

Plants to uncover landmines “A genetically engineered plant that detects landmines in soil by changing colour could prevent thousands of deaths and injuries by signalling where explosives are concealed.”