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Survival Persistence, Transfer: An Update on Current Knowledge on GMOs and the fate of their Recombinant DNA (No. 3)

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USD 6.00 Publisher: TWN
ISBN: 983-9747-37-1
Year: 1999
No. of pages: 48
Size of book: 14.5cm x 21cm
Author: Beatrix Tappeser, Manuela Jager,
About the Author

Dr Beatrix Tappeser is a biologist and coordinator of the Department of Risk Assessment in Genetic Engineering at the Institute for Applied Ecology, Freiburg, Germany. She has been working for fifteen years on questions concerning the possible social, ecological and health-related impacts of genetic engineering in different application fields. The Institute for Applied Ecology is a non-profit, citizen-founded research institution.

Dr Manuela Jager studied biology at the University of Ulm, Germany, from 1983 to 1992, with microbiology, molecular genetics and virology as her main subjects. From 1992 to 1998, she was working at the Department of Risk Assessment in Genetic Engineering at the Institute for Applied Ecology, focusing on genetically engineered and novel foods and their impacts on human health.

Dr Claudia Eckelkamp is a biologist and has been a scientific collaborator at the Department of Risk Assessment in Genetic Engineering at the Institute for Applied Ecology since 1995. Her field of work covers risk assessment and evaluation of the exploitation of genetic engineering in different areas of application, particularly risk assessment of genetically modified microorganisms, environmental risks of the cultivation of genetically engineered plants in agriculture, and evaluation of the safety of genetically engineered foodstuffs.


Contents

Chapter 1  Introduction

Chapter 2  Survival and Spread of GMOs

Chapter 3  Further Points to Consider: VNC state and adaptation ability

Chapter 4  Spread of Cloned Sequences

Chapter 5  Discussion

References 

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