Set the Record Straight

On 09, May 2012 | In Blog, Featured, Portfolio | By admin

We are going to set the record straight:

Let’s take a look as some of the most outrageous statements that pro-labeling supporters are claiming, and are passing along to our legislators and to the public.

Claim: GM Crops create superweeds

The Reality: This is False. From the year 1980 to 1994 when engineered crops became prevalent there were 13 documented herbicide resistant crops per year, after 1994 there have only been on average 11 cases per year. Which shows a decrease in ‘superweeds’ since GM adoption.

However we must also point out that this is another non scientific claim, because there is no ‘scientific definition’ of a ‘superweed’. We assume that the pro-labeling activists mean ‘weeds that are resistant to herbicides’. This is something that as you should note, farmers have been struggling with for years and year, much longer than the GM debate. Herbicide resistant weeds are not a GM crop problem, they are a herbicide problem.

Defense, and SAb Biotherapeutics to Partner to Develop a Novel COVID-19 Therapeutic

April 6, 2020 by admin

Published by Medical Counter Measures

A therapeutic to treat novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is moving forward in development through a partnership between BARDA, the Department of Defense Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Defense (JPEO – CBRND), and SAb Biotherapeutics, Inc. (SAb), of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Using an interagency agreement with JPEO’s Medical CBRN Defense Consortium, BARDA transferred approximately $7.2 million in funding to (JPEO – CBRND) to support SAb to complete manufacturing and preclinical studies, with an option to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial.

Read the full press release here.

Agri-Pulse: Can cows be used to fight coronavirus?

March 30, 2020 by admin

Bovine plasma donors genetically engineered to produce human antibodies are in the front lines of the struggle against coronavirus.

SAB Biotherapeutics, a Sioux Falls, S.D., biotechnology company that has been successfully testing use of antibodies from cows to fight diseases such as another coronavirus, Middle East respiratory syndrome, now is engaged in developing a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Read the full article here.

Times Argus: High-tech chestnuts: US to consider genetically altered tree

November 7, 2019 by admin

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Chestnuts harvested from high branches on a chilly fall morning look typical: they’re marble sized, russet colored and nestled in prickly burs. But many are like no other nuts in nature.

In a feat of genetic engineering, about half the chestnuts collected at this college experiment station feature a gene that provides resistance to blight that virtually wiped out the American chestnut tree generations ago.

Read more here.