The Nature Institute is now beginning a large-scale project aimed at
creating a database and public resource documenting the unintended effects
of genetic manipulation. These effects, it turns out, are not exceptions,
but the general rule.
Experiments investigating the qualitative differences between genetically
altered and non-altered plants reveal that overall morphology and growth
patterns can change dramatically, even when the genetic manipulation is
highly specific and without obvious connection to the overall character
of the plants.
Were organic farming methods responsible for the recent, spinach-related
outbreak of illness? In a letter published in Biotechnology, Craig
responds to the misdirected claims of an editor of that journal.
In Goethe's Science of Living Form: The Artistic Stages, the
Australian scientist Nigel Hoffmann leads the reader through a novel,
artistically informed method of scientific investigation. The Nature
Institute's Craig Holdrege wrote the foreword to the book, which we
reprint here.
Steve Talbott's latest book, Devices of the Soul: Battling for Our
Selves in an Age of Machines, looks from numerous angles at the
processes by which our technologies can lead us away from ourselves.
Here you can read the introduction to his book.
