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- initialism biochemistry
glycol nucleic acid
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Examples
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A team under Arpad Pusztai of the Rowett Institute tested GM potatoes engineered to produce an insecticide called GNA lectin by feeding them to rats.
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A team under Arpad Pusztai of the Rowett Institute tested GM potatoes engineered to produce an insecticide called GNA lectin by feeding them to rats.
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Security has been tight all week in Accra, and Ghana plans to deploy some 10,000 security forces during Obama's visit, according to Ghana News Agency (GNA).
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As a plus, the GNA does not need to drink water at all – it gets all the moisture it needs from the plants they devour.
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The two lines were produced at the same time, under the same conditions, using the same GNA lectin transgene.
Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010
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The Rowett Institute and the company Cambridge Genetics were planning to commercialize the GNA potato and had contracts specifying how the royalties were to be divided.
Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010
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The GNA, which Ms. Harrison was a part of before splitting off to start her own group, includes residents on the park and in the surrounding neighborhood.
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Other rats had been fed natural potatoes spiked with the same amount of GNA insecticide that the GM spud produced — and they did fine.
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A potato was outfitted with an assassin gene from the snowdrop plant; the gene produced "GNA lectin," a protein that kills insects.
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In all his experiments he used an additional control group: non-GMO potatoes (actually the parents of the GMOs) that were spiked with the GNA lectin.
Jeffrey Smith: Biotech Propaganda Cooks Dangers Out of GM Potatoes 2010
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