Our focus in this presentation is on modern biotechnology in crops and animal species. Traditional biotechnology is as old as agriculture and quite harmless. We are not also looking at hybridisation of crops or animals. We will also not advance into any detail on the area of nanotechnology, or the newer and probably more worrisome, synthetic biology.
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar? 
Embryos aren’t female by ‘default’ after all, study shows 
Why you may soon be shopping for tomatoes enhanced with snapdragon flower genes 
Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares 
Viewpoint: By engineering block on Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice, Greenpeace ‘puts the whole environmental movement into disrepute’ 
Why humans have larger penises and smaller testicles than other great apes 
Viewpoint: The organic food industry is a $180 billion marketing fraud 
Marrying your cousin? There may be evolutionary benefits 
Dissecting claims about Monsanto suing farmers for accidentally planting patented seeds 
Many animals can walk at birth. Why are human babies born with so few skills? 
