Common Sense for the Biochemist

According to Science Magazine News researchers report in an upcoming issue of PNAS data refuting earlier reports of contamination of native maize cultivars with transgenic genes. Researchers reported several years ago in the journal Nature that transgenes had been identified in samples of landrace maize in southern Mexico. However, this research and findings from a Mexican governmental agency could not stand up to further scientific scrutiny. In the new findings, researches were not able to find any evidence of transgenic gene contamination. More coverage of this story at the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology The battle may have been lost, but the transgene-contamination wars have only just begun.