Among the raised issues is that of environmental containment (both in term of transgene escape and inadvertent contamination of non-transgenic plant material).
"It will cost lives and it will cost production, it will cost money, cause fires and cause loss of containment, environmental damage - huge, huge damage".
Engineered microcapsules may address regulatory concerns regarding containment of recombinant bacteria and environmental spread of foreign genetic material and may represent an important step in translating paratransgenic science beyond the lab and into the field.
While the thousands of producing wells in the gulf can be temporarily sealed when a storm approaches to reduce the possibility of environmental damage, BP's well would lose whatever containment it had for the duration of the storm.
April 5 (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday to force the Obama administration to finalize new rules regulating the containment and disposal of coal ash, a power plant byproduct activists say threatens public health.
Generally, containment systems are based on a 'killer gene' and a tight 'regulatory circuit' that controls expression of the killer gene in response to the presence or absence of environmental signals [ 3, 4].
This suggests that the system can be optimised to full biological containment and environmental safety without altering its delivery properties.
Be aware of environmental factors.
The issue of containment of man-made genetic constructs for limiting their possible environmental impact can be traced to the very birth of Genetic Engineering GEE).
The withdrawal of methyl bromide because of its environmental risk could fortuitously help in the containment of its human toxicity.
Plant cell suspensions and hairy roots combine the advantages inherent to plants with the environmental control, scalability, short production cycles, and containment of tissues cultured in bioreactors.
