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1. First direct evidence of horizontal gene transfer ...: (2002); 1 October 2002 FIRST DIRECT EVIDENCE OF HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER http://www.nature.com/nsu/020923/020923-11.html Genes caught skipping from bacteria to beetle Tokyo team claims first direct evidence ...; Created on 01 October 2002
2. Bitter Harvest/Fields of Gold and horizontal gene transfer ...: (2002); 1. Bitter Harvest - programme details 2. Denial Continues over Horizontal Gene Transfer - ISIS *** 1. Bitter Harvest - programme details Bitter Harvest is a series of 3 programmes that will go out ...; Created on 07 June 2002
3. Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens - II ...: (2001); Horizontal Gene Transfer Happens - II ISIS Report - May 4, 2001 The evidence for horizontal gene transfer is accumulating. Mae-Wan Ho reviews a selection of recent scientific papers. Survival of free ...; Created on 08 May 2001
4. Gene Transfer Found in Soil at GM Cattle Site: (2005); ... tests have found that 'horizontal gene transfer' has occurred with soil micro-organisms in land where transgeneic cattle have been grazing. The discovery - of 'HGT'- once claimed by some scientists to ...; Created on 03 September 2005
5. Review 590: New GMOs: (News review); ... . Bacteria and microalgae also readily exchange DNA via horizontal gene transfer, raising the risk of spread of both intended and unintended engineered sequences and traits. Moreover, bacteria are capab ...; Created on 11 October 2025
6. Review 589: De-Extinction, Designer Babies, Gene Drives and More: (News review); ... hindering assessment and monitoring of their survival following intended or accidental release. Bacteria and microalgae also readily exchange DNA via horizontal gene transfer, raising the risk of sprea ...; Created on 19 August 2025
7. GM microorganisms pose huge challenges for risk assessment and governance: (Latest News); ... readily exchange DNA via horizontal gene transfer, raising the risk of spread of both intended and unintended engineered sequences and traits. Moreover, bacteria are capable of rapid genetic change, with ...; Created on 07 August 2025
8. EFSA is wrong: New GM plants can’t be assumed to be as safe as conventional plants: (2024); ... time that it’s been used. Previously, agricultural GMO lobbyists have stated that because an aspect of genetic engineering called horizontal gene transfer (HGT – transferring genes across species) ha ...; Created on 23 August 2024
9. GMO risk assessment – a "fact-free" exercise: (2023); ... sed to dioxins. With GMOs, there are several potential areas of risk, including genetic instability, horizontal gene transfer (e.g. antibiotic resistance genes – frequently used in genetic engineering – tr ...; Created on 31 May 2023
10. Why claims that gene editing doesn’t involve insertion of foreign genes or DNA are false: (2022); ... 25. Ono R et al (2019). Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Communications Biology 2:57. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0300-2 26. ...; Created on 11 December 2022
11. Argentina: GMO wheat banned in the province of Buenos Aires: (2022); ... To support his decision, he cited – among others – a document from the National Biotechnology Commission (Conabia) that details "the potential horizontal transfer or exchange of genes" between GMO wheat ...; Created on 11 July 2022
12. UK: Guidance on GMOs that "could have arisen through natural processes" is vague, unscientific, and irresponsible: (2022); ... sient selection on kanamycin) and the cisgenes were composed of sense or anti-sense plant DNA from three distinct genes.” Horizontal gene transfer ACRE admits that cisgenic plants can contain fore ...; Created on 06 May 2022
13. Deadly fungus resistant to fungicide jumps from farms to people: (2022); ... to have higher numbers of antibiotic resistant bacteria than areas where the chemicals were not applied. The resistant genes move throughout the environment by ‘horizontal gene transfer,’ elevating the ...; Created on 24 February 2022
14. Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat – GM foods and the Pusztai affair, part I: (2022); ... ering Differs from Conventional Breeding, Hybridization, Wide Crosses and Horizontal Gene Transfer, Consumer Policy Institute/Consumers Union, January. 54 Al-Kaff, N et al (1998) ‘Transcriptional and Posttranscrip ...; Created on 11 February 2022
15. On-target effects of genome editing techniques: (Un)repaired DNA damage, a hindrance to safety and development?: (2021); ... rizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Communications Biology, 2(1), 57. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-019-0300-2 Onozawa, M., Zhang, Z., Kim, Y. J., Goldberg, L ...; Created on 06 October 2021
16. Herbicides used with GM crops increase antibiotic resistance genes in agricultural soil: (2021); ... This pattern of elevated resistance could be explained by two potential underlying mechanisms: selection for de novo antibiotic resistance and mobilization of ARGs via horizontal gene transfer. As glyphosate ...; Created on 12 July 2021
17. GMWatch mythbuster exposes UK government misinformation on gene editing: (2021); ... 28/16 4. Ono R, Yasuhiko Y, Aisaki K, Kitajima S, Kanno J, Hirabayashi Y. Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Commun Biol. 2019;2(1 ...; Created on 15 February 2021
18. Over 2,000 studies and journal publications document risks and harms from GMOs and related pesticides: (2020); ... from around the world documenting health effects, environmental impacts, impacts on non-target organisms, resistance of target organisms, pesticide drift damage, genetic contamination, horizontal gene ...; Created on 22 October 2020
19. Scientifically indefensible, anti-democratic, and harmful to trade: (2020); ... 9] As a result of this episode, the FDA is arguing for strong regulation of gene-edited animals.[22] In nature, integrations of foreign DNA happen only rarely, in events known as “horizontal gene transfe ...; Created on 02 July 2020
20. Science supports need to subject gene-edited plants and animals to strict safety assessments: (2019); ... 19. Peer-reviewed papers on gene-edited mice * Ono R et al (2019). Exosome-mediated horizontal gene transfer occurs in double-strand break repair during genome editing. Communications Biology 2: 57 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0 ...; Created on 19 November 2019

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