genetically engineer crops can out cross and that their. contaminate their natural varieties might be contaminated and that they'll lose control over those ok that's a major because it is and it's unfortunately one that's really not well founded and it's. the out crossing the. negligible the only draft so far of all the claims made by backers of biotechnology the absence of drift is the most specious and demonstrably false. bearing bees will travel several miles wind carries pollen hundreds of miles and humans can inadvertently transfer genetically modified pollen across oceans the theft and use of genetic seeds is not uncommon across national boundaries and genes are known to move between species on bacterial and viral vectors one need only watch wind sandia crest above albuquerque new mexico to imagine how far can travel and surmise of the vehicle which the plane's grasses flowers and trees used to cross the american continent the biotech industry claims the chances of genetic drift at a distance of a few meters drops below one percent us

that genetic manipulation whether or not the genetically engineered chili is a g.m.o. is a distinction that could cost the new mexico farmers access to many foreign export markets the e.u. is. much more comfortable with the crops generated through a systemic approach dr hansen and the dean at the end a mess you school of agriculture as you see in the sea mail or trying to say that there chile will not be considered a g.m.o. in the european union and other countries that ban or cattail their use they make this argument despite laws that clearly say the systemic approach like the one m.m.s. use using is in fact creating a genetically modified organism. doctors heal sarah leni from the university of conn in france has helped shape european policy towards genetically modified organisms called the european union and four hundred fifty countries around the world the definition of goods here no is not a matter where the gene comes from it's a matter of gene been modified vitro and it's you know the backbone of the origin of the gene what is clear is that more than one hundred

genetic tests going to far reaching consequences so before you do a genetic test get informed what it really means and talk to your. some diseases can actually be caused by genes take colon cancer or breast cancer for example some special forms can be inherited it's simple blood test can tell you if you're affected. and i go to is a retired physician for a long time he didn't know that he has an unusually high risk of getting a certain kind of cancer. it's a genetic risk he was born with. only 21st minamata when i was 20 my mother died of metal started colon cancer. while she was in hospital she warned my sister and me that we might get it too. and that it might be genetic and if you didn't gain an illegal. like his mother the writer studied medicine but he didn't remember her warning until some of his own patients who had the disease reminded him. of the vital began to go for regular checkups and for many years everything was fine when examining doctors found no sign of a disease he felt relieved and assumed he didn't have any unusual genetic risk but then he was diagnosed with colon

if you just use genetics, it's not going to work.a can't offer every answer, at least dr yiannis later confirmed that i'm free to drink coffee while i mull over my need for any diet change — or not. spencer: i tell you she'd never have given it up anyway. now, back at decode genetics in iceland, founder kari stefansson has been looking at a similar and possibly controversial topic: how our genes shape our bodies, our minds and our personalities. i can tell you how we can use genetics to explore, in a way, the nature of man. his most recent scientific paper has been looking at how that relates to one of the developed world's biggest health problems. if there is one condition that predisposes to more diseases than anything else, it is obesity. obesity predisposes to heart failure, to liver diseases, to osteoarthritis, to type 2 diabetes. it predisposes to an incredible number of all cancer diseases. now, some people are genetically predisposed to become obese. their genetic make—up means that they'rejust more likely to overeat. not all

genetic engineering is on the tail of conventional. culture that is characterized by the proliferation of agro chemicals fertilizers pesticides herbicides fungicides all of these chemicals . costs in on energy production they have cost in environmental cleanup this is self-propagating genetic pollution we have no technology today to fully clean up the damage gene pool maybe we will in the future . but we're not feeding the products of a good food science to the entire population and releasing me to be viable where they can never be recall. any scientists who tells you they know that g m o's are safe and not to worry about it is either ignorant of the history of science or is deliberately lying nobody knows what the long term effects will be geneticists dr david suzuki genetically engineered foods go through a rigorous review before they are approved the review includes analysis of the trams sharing plant versus its parent and there's a standard that you have to meet called substantial equivalence they have to be equivalent in terms and

that genetic manipulation whether or not the genetically engineered chili is a g.m.o. is a distinction that could cost the new mexico farmers access to many foreign export markets the e.u. is. much more comfortable with crops generated through a systemic approach dr hansen and the dean at the end a misuse school of agriculture as you see in the c. mail are trying to say that there chili will not be considered a g.m.o. in the european union and other countries that ban or curtail their use they make this argument despite laws that clearly say the systemic approach like the one m.m.s. use using is in fact creating a genetically modified organism. doctors yale sarah laney from the university of conn in france has helped shape european policy towards genetically modified organisms called a european union and hundred fifty countries around the world the definition of goods here no it's not a matter where the gene comes from it's a matter of gene being modified vitro in its you know the backbone of the origin of the gene what is clear is that more than one hundred countries

it's a genetic risk he was born with. as a twenty first man a motor when i was twenty my mother died of metta started colon cancer. while she was in hospital she warned my sister and me that we might get it too and could very might be genetic and if you didn't gain an illegal. like his mother the writer studied medicine. but he didn't remember her warning until some of his own patients who had the disease reminded him. the vital began to go for regular checkups and for many years everything was fine when examining doctors found no sign of a disease he felt relieved and assumed he didn't have any unusual genetic risk but then he was diagnosed with colon cancer. when i was forty three i had a colonoscopy and they found i had cancer of the cold on them. they were able to remove it surgically so i didn't need him a therapy he muttered. at that point whiter decided he wanted to know whether his disease had a genetic component he wondered if he might have passed the risk on to his own four children. got to turn a patient went t

genetically engineer crops can cross and that their. contaminate their natural varieties might be contaminated and that they'll lose control over those. ok that's a major because it is and it's unfortunately one that's really not well founded and it's. the out crossing the. negligible pollen the only draft so far of all the claims made by backers of biotechnology the absence of pollen drift is the most specious and demonstrably false pollen bearing bees will travel several miles wind carries pollen hundreds of miles and humans can inadvertently transfer genetically modified pollen across oceans the theft and use of genetic seeds is not uncommon across national boundaries and genes are known to move between species on bacterial and viral vectors one need only watch wind sandia crest above albuquerque new mexico to imagine how far pollen can travel and surmise the vehicle which the plane's grasses flowers and trees used to cross the american continent the biotech industry claims the chances of genetic drift at a distance of a few meters d

genetically engineer crops can out cross and that their. contam their natural varieties might be contaminated and that they'll lose control over those ok that's a major as it is and it's unfortunately one that's really not well founded and it's . the out crossing the. negligeable the only draft so far of all the claims made by backers of biotechnology the absence of pollen drift is the most specious and demonstrably false. bearing bees will travel several miles wind carries pollen hundreds of miles and humans can inadvertently transfer genetically modified pollen across oceans the theft and use of genetic seeds is not uncommon across national boundaries and genes are known to move between species on bacterial and viral vectors one need only watch wind sandia crest above albuquerque new mexico to imagine how far pollen can travel and surmise the vehicle which the plane's grasses flowers and trees used to cross the american continent the biotech industry claims the chances of genetic drift at a distance of a few meters drops below one percent

doctor turned patient went to munich center of medical genetics he wanted to know if he carried a genetic variation associated with increased risk of colon cancer. many experts say that it's a wise choice to make in situations like his. there are a whole range of genetic diseases where it makes sense to identify the risks for example hereditary cancer syndrome so familiar with these that can manifest in adults especially with regards to cancers genetic testing allows you to estimate the risk of developing a disease and in which quite accurately then a screening plan can be developed for the family. tests look for mutations in specific genes in cells taken from a sample of blood. from mutations are ones that are known to be associated with specific diseases. another kind of genetic testing is gaining in popularity you just send in a saliva sample to a commercial provider many companies advertise the service online they claim to be able to detect increased risk for over $200.00 diseases all for a low price but unlike in targeted genetic testing most of these commercial providers don't searc

and that genetic tendency _ get ill. and that genetic tendency has _ get ill.pact on get ill. and that genetic - tendency has no impact on these diseases, so it is purely the obesity itself that predisposes us to disease. and then we asked the question, what is it, then, that this genetic tendency has an impact on. which part of our biology, which part of our being, is being influenced by this genetic score for obesity? and indeed, we showed that a greater genetic tendency to become obese is, the worse you perform on all cancer tests of cognitive function. your verbal iq is less, your trail making testis iq is less, your trail making test is worse, your education is less. obesity itself has no impact on cognitive function, so you don't become stupid by becoming obese. but the genetic aberration that made you lose control of eating behaviour has an impact on many other functions of your brain. 50 functions of your brain. so obesity makes you susceptible to other diseases regardless of your genes, but the gene which makes obesity more likely does affect your inte

also considers most genetic engineering is for herbicide resistant it's spring. and that kills all the weeds except killed all the plants except for the crops that were genetically engineered while the life was saved itself can get into the water and this herbicide but not only the but the other chemicals they use there cerf octant and other chemicals in the mix of the herbicide which there is a direct link to the decline in v.b. in species in in freshwater ecological systems so. there's a lot of environmental impacts that haven't been adequately adequately addressed and the studies that are coming down are pretty definitive that we need to proceed with caution before proliferating this technology into the open air the waterways are contaminated our bodies are full of contaminants it's a system based on illness it's not a health producing system. of course it affects the whole system. i mean that's what organic agriculture is about is the opposite of that it's about creating healthy soils that that are complex and have lots of organisms interacting in a healthy s

has refused to undergo a genetic test. it's kind of like can understand that because then you have it in writing and there's no denying it if my father says he's now so old anyway and doesn't want that that i have to accept it. were cancer genes are involved patients in germany are provided with screenings and preventive surgery most hereditary diseases however are incurable now scientists in gene laboratories are using d. . scissors to directly intervene in human cells with the hope of repairing them quickly feeling. we get a lot of e-mails and letters from people with genetic diseases asking us to help them. out of this in but we can't yet because the technologies we are developing still have to be tested in clinical trials and. we're still far from finding a cure for all hereditary diseases but what professor pool halls and his team can do is astonishing they took cells infected with hiv and completely removed the genome that had introduced the virus so far that work is limited to animal experiments but this progress is

i'm editing this new type of genetic engineering. the 1st is genetics, this is krista lab. it cuts out the unwanted part of the gina. but unlike hair, this pot does not grow back. it's gone forever edition. it did them now please. and no one knows what last and consequences this could have for the plant that is in the 2nd technique is gene silencing with this there is no cutting loss, is about to get rid of the problematic part, whether you use something artificial to conceal at the core now, and it not only conceals gene silencing causes permanent changes in the genetic material of the plant by means of muted genesis. as an implant in classical genetic engineering, we speak of trans genesis. here a gene foreign to the species is transplanted into the genome of a host organism, like a plant or an animal, though. so that develops characteristics that it did not originally have. yep. mm menda, rectify sumpter? no, i didn't read that, knew it was in lay with it. yes. all she for i didn't, the new methods modify the genetic material of the plant without transplanting genes. thi

here is a document that provides data on some genetic characteristics of a person, a genetic passport can be different, it can be dedicated only to sports abilities. it will be a passport, an athlete or a person's medical characteristics or some kind of passport, health, more general. and here, well, here i have here, uh, you see, the most different. by the way, here is the explanation of the causes of miscarriage. this is our most demanding service, for which most of the clients come to us, and the fact is that, unfortunately, about a fifth of love, pregnancy and desired pregnancy ends unsuccessfully and not always doctors can identify the cause. what's the matter? why miscarriage why miscarriage? and just like that, we can determine the identifying causes of miscarriage, and by identifying the cause, we thereby create opportunities for doctors to carry out prophylaxis. in order for women to successfully give birth to children, not only residents of belarus come to us, moreover, from various cities. we even provide remote service, that is, a person can send us his biological material

genetically engineer crops can cross their. contam their natural varieties might be contaminated and that they'll lose control over those. ok that's a major concern it is and it's unfortunately one that's really not well founded and it's. negligible paula only draft so far of all the claims made by backers of biotechnology the absence of pollen drift is the most specious and demonstrably false pollen bearing bees will travel several miles wind carries pollen hundreds of miles and humans can inadvertently transfer genetically modified pollen across oceans the theft and use of genetic seeds is not uncommon across national boundaries and genes are known to move between species on bacterial and viral vectors one need only watch wind sandia crest above albuquerque new mexico to imagine how far pollen can travel and surmise the vehicle which the planes grasses flowers and trees used to cross the american continent the biotech industry claims the chances of genetic drift at a distance of a few meters drops below one percent using that

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the revisions are genetic engineering are imprecise and highly disruptive. in light of these enormous differences, it would be reasonable to think that genetic engineers should exercise far greater caution than do software engineers, but the unfortunate reality is they exercise far less, shockingly less. software engineers recognize the inescapable risks of altering complex information system and they deal with them responsibly. >> even the regulators have discounted them and assume there's little need for rigorous testing. the united states food and drug administration claims that foods so safe they don't need to be tested at all and although regulators in the e.u. and most other regions required some testing it has been minimal. for almost 20 years, g.e. foods aloud on worldwide markets based solely on superficial showing of substantial equivalence to counterparts. something that is never allowed in the case of life critical software despite the fact that a toxic tomato could cause far nor human harm than a malfunctioning x-ray machine. and although the e.

to approve genetically modified salmon. they say it's safe, you say it could pose a threat to wild salmon tabbing -- stock, why? >> they did a yes cursely look at the federal level. we asked for an gens review to be done, an environmental impact statement. the federal government refused to do that. nicks, if the fish make it to market. consumers will not know they are genetically engineered, because requirement. a bigger concern is everywhere we have seen salmon farmed - whether it's norway, chile, canada or washington state, there has been escapees. the canadian government made a finding that they expect there'll be escapees with these fish as well. >> let's go through some of these things. what do you think the sda will find if it did a full environmental review. >> one thing they would find is the sterilisation process that is contemplated is not 100% effective. even after sterilising the fish, 5% are able to reproduce. if they escape into the wild. they can produce in the wild, and that would pose a threat to wild salmo

just because we wanted to film a field of genetically modified corn. why such hostility on social media? the tone is quite different. take this official video of howard buffett talking about funding this g m o cornfield in uganda. the morning when i remember when i sat down last here and i was trying to explain how this project is, can work it. the only way you can say is we're going to bring rain and they look at you like, why are you going to do that? i see it, but buffets miracles can only happen if farmers adopt new technologies and abandoned traditional farming. a rich white benefactor telling africans what to do reminiscent of the colonial era. so the next few years, we hope that you can learn how to improve some of your planting. ah, why are we not allowed to film here? because in the world of genetically modified organisms or g m o's control is paramount every word and every image is carefully cultivated. for this social networks offer an ideal platform. imagine what it's like to live in extreme poverty . you have to think about the basics, lik

it's a genetic risk he was born with. the 21st moment or when i was 20 my mother died of metta started colon cancer. while she was in hospital she warned my sister and me that we might get it too. and that it might be genetic and if we didn't gain an illegal. like his mother the writer studied medicine but he didn't remember her warning until some of his own patients who had the disease reminded him. the writer began to go for regular checkups and for many years everything was fine when examining doctors found no sign of a disease he felt relieved and assumed he didn't have any unusual genetic risk but then he was diagnosed with colon cancer. when i was 43 i had a colonoscopy and they found i had cancer of the cold on them. they were able to remove it surgically so i didn't need came a therapy humor to. at that point the whiter decided he wanted to know whether his disease had a genetic component he wondered if he might have passed the risk on to his own 4 children. doctor turned patient went to munich center of medical g

most important to understand about genetic engineering is that. it is really attempt to say listen no matter how unsustainable our technologies we're not going to change the technology to fit the natural living systems we're going to change living systems so they fit the technology we all know how horrible factory farming is and one of the problems they have with egg laying chickens with hands is they have a mothering instinct they want to brute and here you see one of the brain experiments genetically engineering chickens to take out the mothering instinct from these brooding chickens so they won't boot anymore they won't have the mothering instinct anymore so they'll fit the factory farm system this is one of the came near of birds they're working with the take away the mothering instinct so we don't change our factory farm system we actually take the mothering instinct out of a. animals so that they will fit the technology. in the mid eighty's once again a new supposedly golden age dawned for scientists genetic technology appeared to be the key

not a known genetic problem at least. and a problem that isn't there can't be passed down. so that's good news melanie has been given the all clear for the time being. we can say now is that with the technology and the knowledge we currently have at our disposal of we have not found any evidence of anything unusual but in a few years' time it may be a quite different scenario thanks to further insights and advances in genetic diagnostics technology so why don't we go to. him and geneticists concurrently test for around 100 individual genetic mutations that lead to cancer what are known as monitored genic diseases most genetic disorders however involve a number of genes these poly genic diseases are far more complex and difficult to identify for these to be discovered there would 1st have to be larger scale studies with more volunteers would. be able to detect and show changes in a range of different people where you wouldn't expect them. that sense there is no such thing as a genetically healthy individual. or you can do

the genetic engineering of trees is following on the tradition of genetically engineering crops and many of the same traits that are being engineered and the trees are things that have been done in crops since about the eighty's. and so, yeah, it's, it's all, it's all done in a lab and it involves various techniques for inserting. in the case of the american chestnut, inserting jeans from a completely unrelated speech, sees a grass barley into into the genetically engineered, excuse me, into the america, chose not to create that genetically engineered americans just not so very, very process of genetic modification is very disruptive to the genome, so they're going in there and they're using either a bacterium in this case, or in some cases literally did a coded little bullet. so if they fire into the cell, and they hope that it land somewhere useful in the, in the genome on the, in the, excuse me, i'm one of the chromosomes so that they can then have a product that can be tested out, but can be replicated that could be eventually put out into the field. so in the case of the g. e chests

-- single genetic testing question. we do not have good oversight mechanisms for the benefit of thinking abo group harm of many research procts. and it's coming up in community-based participatory research. we don't have good regulations or oversight o common rule doesn't address it. so this is something that i think we have to taken proactively as an issue well beyond the genetic. >> it's much broader than geneticoo. p any own area of wk, environmental law in part, the stigma attached to persons living who have drunk the water or breathed the air in your site for a generation or so and they feel like they have -- they are tainted by that community experience and resrchers and others wt to address their situations. and that leads you to the same problem. it has nothing to do with genetics. >> i do want to go back to one comment that you made, tim, in passes. the uk is now protectg t ability of parents to enlist their children for genetic testing and that that should, one mu wait -- one must wait til they are at an age o

i'm a chairman of genetic " -- genetic clinics, and i'm the commissioner of they human genetics commissionand i was the adviser for a madison inquiry for the house of lords. i am representing the first of these and i am not representing my role as specialist adviser here. the views that i are giving are my personal views. there have been several reports and much activity over the past six or seven years in the u.k. -- the humans -- the human genetic commission consider this question in 2003. this is about the same time as the government produced a white paper which had a major impact on the way the genetics was viewed by the department of health services. much more recently, the commission report in the present calendar year, a consultation initially by the human genetics commission on the direct consumer testing, and a consultation -- a public consultation is about to start for this tomorrow and some of it is already available in the workshops. the gentleman madison inquiry -- the genomic madison inquiry was quite recent. it sought -- it showed how it could be applied to clinical practice

the genetic engineering of trees is following on the tradition of genetically engineering crops and many of the same traits that are being engineered and the trees are things that have been done in crops since about the eighty's. and so, yeah, it's, it's all, it's all done in a lab and it involves various techniques for inserting. in the case of the american chestnut, inserting jeans from a completely unrelated speech, sees a grass barley into into the genetically engineered, excuse me, into the america, chose not to create that genetically engineered americans just not so very, very process of genetic modification is very disruptive to the genome, so they're going in there and they're using either a bacterium in this case, or in some cases literally did a coded little bullet. so if they fire into the cell, and they hope that it land somewhere useful in the, in the genome on the, in the, excuse me, i'm one of the chromosomes so that they can then have a product that can be tested out, but can be replicated that could be eventually put out into the field. so in the case of the g. e chests

she will become the owner of a genetic passport genetic passports for residents of belarus and othere been compiled since 2010 at the republican center for genomic biotechnologies, institutes, genetics and cytology of the national academy of sciences, having learned about the center and its capabilities, elena did not have to wait long and turned out to be here i am interested in preventive medicine and in general, sincerely i believe that it is better hmm to prevent some diseases. as far as possible, than to treat later. that's because in the press. to me it seems that the current medicine. it is very strongly aimed at some symptomatic things, that is, treatment due to what has manifested itself, and to know in advance that one is inclined to something and the way of life is to test with some good habits. well, i think that's the analysis. can i help a lot with this? elena is on the right track at the center, testing for genetic predisposition to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome and many other diseases. i seem to have predisposition, as it seems to