Sentence examples for gm organisms from inspiring English sources

At the root of this issue is consumers' wariness about GM foodstuffs and GM organisms in general.

A few years later, scientists on the US Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee unilaterally tried to end the prohibition on release of genetically modified (GM) organisms into the environment without asking for an environmental impact assessment.

He is frustrated by the attitudes to genetic modification in the UK and has little time for the "ethical" arguments against placing human genes into plants because, he says, medicines from GM organisms are nothing new.

Further joy has come from another proposal approved by the parliament, which will allow member states to take "appropriate" measures to avoid the unintended presence of GM organisms in other crops.

A group of senior geneticists have called for international safeguards to apply to researchers who want to develop gene drives, with strict security measures placed on laboratories to prevent the accidental escape of "supercharged" GM organisms that are able to spread rapidly in the wild.

For GM organisms, a further dimension of complexity arises.

Non-GM organic carrots, of course.

We analysed the data presented for three assessment categories of the ERA of genetically modified [GM] maize applications for cultivation in the European Union: the agronomic evaluations and the assessments of the effects of GM maize on target organisms and of its potential adverse effects on non-target organisms.

The study powder contains 1 × 109 total organisms per 1.5 gm.

Meanwhile, a slew of "GM-free zones," where all transgenic organisms are banned (including fish, other animals, and plants used to make drugs), are cropping up around the world.

In case of cultivation of GM maize, the main factors that determine adventitious presence of a genetically modified organism (GMO) in non-GM material are unintended seed impurity, seed planting equipment and practices, cross-pollination between GM and non-GM crops, the presence of GM volunteers, and product mixing during harvest, transport and/or storage processes [3].