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5 unusual facts about genetic engineering


Alliance-Union universe

Union augments its population and armed forces with genetically engineered and psychologically conditioned human clones, called azi, which are seen as an abomination by Earth.

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

Reeve explains to Vincent that the soldiers were members of Deepground, a military organization created as part of a covert Shinra operation to create gentically enhanced super soldiers.

Genetics Forum

It sponsored the world's first citizen participation initiative on genetic engineered food, Citizen Foresight, which won the Caroline Walker Trust Prize (Science) in 1998.

Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett

Himself the owner of an 890 acre (360 hectares) farm, Lord Melchett was arrested in 1999 when he was present at an environmental protest against a genetically modified crop trial, at which crops were destroyed by campaigners.

Superhuman strength

Superhuman strength is used by several characters in fantasy and science fiction, with a variety of proposed mechanisms such as cyborg body parts or genetic modification and even telekinetic fields in science fiction, or divine or magical/supernatural sources in fantasy.


22945 Schikowski

It is named after Erin Schikowski who was a young student when she drew acclaim for ground-breaking work on Supramolecular assembly, a crucial component in the field of genetic engineering.

Alti

In Season 6, Alti returns reincarnated as the brilliant genetic engineer Alexis Los Alamos.

David Goeddel

David Goeddel (born 1951 in San Diego) is a pioneer of the biotechnology industry who, employed at the time by Genentech, successfully used genetic engineering to coax bacteria into creating synthetic human insulin, human growth hormone, and human Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for use in therapeutic medicine.

Huntington's disease clinical research

Genetically-engineered intracellular antibody fragments called intrabodies have shown therapeutic results in fruit fly models, by inhibiting mHtt aggregation using an intrabody which binds to the end of mHtt within a cell.

The Botany of Desire

The stories range from the true story of Johnny Appleseed to Pollan's first-hand research with sophisticated marijuana hybrids in Amsterdam to the paradigm-shifting possibilities of genetically engineered potatoes.

Traceability of genetically modified organisms

The final decision requires the assignment of a "unique identifier" to each GMO event which is authorised in one or more OECD countries.

Vistive Gold

MON 87705 (OECD UI: MON-877Ø5-6, also known as Vistive Gold) is a genetically engineered variety of glyphosate-resistant low-linolenic, high-oleic soybeans produced by Monsanto.


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Arturo Falaschi

He was very articulate and convinced several governments in the developed and the developing world to establish a 2-component International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, with one component in New Delhi, India and one in Trieste, Italy; both devoted to research and training of young researchers from the developing world.

Coppélia

In episode 2 of the anime Coppelion Aoi stated that their unit was named after "Coppélia", saying that just like Coppélia, a beautiful life size doll created by Dr. Coppelius, they were living dolls created by genetic engineering.

Morphological freedom

The term may have been coined by strategic philosopher Max More in his 1993 article, Technological Self-Transformation: Expanding Personal Extropy, where he defined it as "the ability to alter bodily form at will through technologies such as surgery, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, uploading".

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering

National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering or NIBGE is one of the main biotehnology institutes operated by Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission(PAEC).

Recombineering

The biggest advantage of recombineering is that it obviates the need for conveniently positioned restriction sites, whereas in conventional genetic engineering, DNA modification is often compromised by the availability of unique restriction sites.

Xylose metabolism

In attempts to generate S. cerevisiae strains that are able to ferment D-xylose the XYL1 and XYL2 genes of P. stipitis coding for the D-xylose reductase (XR) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH), respectively were introduced in S. cerevisiae by means of genetic engineering.