Biotech Updates

SCRI Scientists to Study GMO Safety Assessment Techniques

August 10, 2007

Part of a £400,000 project was awarded to scientists at the Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI) to research techniques that can be used for the safety assessment of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The SCRI scientists will be working with a team at the John Innes Centre on improved and more rapid methods for determining whether plant genes may be “disrupted” by the genetic modification process and if entirely new proteins might arise from genetic modification. The methods will help in the development of diagnostic tools for GM plants. It will be used to detect GMOs in the food chain as part of Europe’s regulatory regime.

Read the press release at http://www.scri.sari.ac.uk/press/GMOsafetyassessment.htm.