2011-09-22
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Myth #1. GMO foods can trigger cancer. Transgenes tend to get integrated into the genes of intestinal microorganisms, and this is a mutation. It is known that cell mutations lead to the development of cancer cells. This is an absolute lie. GMOs cannot be integrated anywhere because of a simple reason - they disintegrate in the body into harmless parts in the first few minutes after entering the stomach. Maximum 20 minutes - and those little bundles of genetic chains are already dispersed, impersonal and become building blocks for our body.
2010-07-22
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Russian dairy goats can produce milk containing human protein. Several cubs with a human genome in their DNA were born at a farm in the Moscow region’s Shakhovsky district as part of a joint Russian-Belarus research project. Five years have passed since scientists from Russia and Belarus started experiments to obtain goat milk containing lactoferrin. This human breast milk element protects a baby from viruses and bacteria while its own immune system develops.
2010-04-19
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Russia has started the annual Days of Defence against Environmental Hazards from the 15th of April to the 5th of June with the announcement of sensational results of an independent work of research. Scientists have proved that Genetically Modified Organisms are harmful for mammals. The researchers discovered that animals that eat GM foodstuffs lose their ability to reproduce.
2009-06-23
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Russian biologists plan to plant 300,000 genetically modified aspens and birch trees at two experimental fields, Informnauka news agency reports. In the autumn of 2009 the trees, currently in greenhouses, will be planted in the open air near the cities of St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod. The trees’ DNA has been modified by researchers at the Institute for Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences to provide for faster growth and harder wood pulp.
2009-03-02
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Speaker of the Kurgan Regional Duma Marat Islamov held a working group meeting on February 17 devoted to GMO legislation. There is a regional law that prohibits social organizations to purchase food containing genetically modified ingredients for regional social establishments (kindergartens, schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc.).
2008-04-24
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The growth in genetically modified foods has not yet seen large-scale public debate in Russia but a number of people do feel strongly about the issue. Thus, a group of youth activists in the northern city of Murmansk is demanding a ban on GM products. ”The problem lies with the scientists who refuse to recognise these facts. But just because there’s no consensus on whether those products are fully safe shows that we shouldn’t be consuming them,” believes Vitaly Servetnik, a member of the Nature and Youth campaign group.
2008-04-10
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Recent meeting of Russian and Belarusian authorities resulted in a decision to continue works on transgenic animals. In case cooperation agreement is signed, parties will seek for funding. Transgenic hordes would be kept in special farm. Transgenic animals will produce milk with medical human proteins, which will be extracted and used as treatment for various diseases. First human protein to appear in goat milk is lactoferrin, human milk protein, which is a strong antibacterial and anti-inflammatory agent.
2007-12-27
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Researchers from Russia and Belarus working under the federal state program have for the first time in the world got two transgenic kids, each cell of which contains the lactoferrin (human breast milk protein) coding gene. In several years, a flock of transgenic she-goats will be produced from them, the milk of which will make basis for a new generation of highly efficient and biologically safe drugs.
2007-12-13
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The Editor of a prestigious biotechnology journal has admitted that he allowed his journal to be used as a vehicle for a premeditated attack on Russian scientist Irina Ermakova. December’s on-line edition of ”Nature Biotechnology” contains an extraordinary admission that he was closely involved in a plan by four scientists to ”set up” Ermakova and then to seek to dissect and dismiss her scientific methods and her results
2007-12-03
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We have been informed that Dr Alan McHughen, one of the four scientists who offered their services as reviewers of Dr Ermakova’s work and who encouraged Nature Biotechnology to publish the offending article, is aggrieved that certain opinions have been expressed ”without supporting evidence” and which he finds defamatory. We are happy to provide the supporting evidence below in the context of a note about the threatened litigation.
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