Month: April 2009

Biotechnology, Implications, Toxicology

Monsanto’s Roundup Residues in GM Food Cause Cell Damage (Mercola.com)

The researchers studied toxicity mechanisms of four different Roundup
formulations in human cells. The formulations were diluted at minimal doses (up
to 100,000 times or more), but they still caused cell death within a few hours.
The researchers also noted membrane and DNA damages, and found the formulations
inhibit cell respiration.

Implications, Money, NeuroPsyche

Is APA treatment advice tainted by pharma ties? (FiercePharma)

Some prominent psychiatrists have come under fire recently for thousands in
unreported income from drugmakers. Critics have said that these influential
doctor-researchers led the way toward off-label use of some powerful psychiatric
drugs–and perhaps their recommendations weren’t objective judgments but biased
by their financial ties to pharma. …