With the White Paper for a Food Standards Agency (FSA) due to be published this week, Greenpeace laid out its "snagging list" of four major genetically modified (GM) food problems which the paper

Nineteen European nations signed an agreement banning human cloning, the first accord of its kind, at the French Foreign Ministry. The Protocol, an annex to the Council of Europe's convention on

Nineteen European nations on Monday signed an agreement to prohibit the genetic replication of human beings, but without Britain, which considers the measure too strict and Germany, which considers

Genetically engineered soyabeans are causing a furore in Europe, with environmenalists and health activists seeking to bring a ban on the soyabeans from being sold in the region on the gorunds that

UP to now, no transgenic crops have been planted commercially in the European Union. There are many trial plots, but nothing grown in Europe has yet reached the shops. Nor there are many imports. The

Scientists say dinosaur fossils discovered in China with feather-like features suggest the creature was warm-blooded, a theory that could heighten the debate over the fundamental nature of

Plans by a US scientists to thwart a pending human cloning ban have sparked an outcry in Washington, where the White House and lawmakers warned of sinister consequences from the latest

A Chicago-area scientist is poised to start experiments on cloning human beings to create babies for infertile couples, according to National Public Radio (NPR). It said Richard Seed, a physicist who

The European food industry has decided voluntarily to label foods containing genetically modified soyabeans or maize, after member states failed to agree on common EU labelling

Switzerland, which is due to hold a refrendum on curbing genetic engineering later this year, has fallen into line with the majority of European Union members and approved the import of genetically