Biotechnology and International Law

Harvard International Law Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Murphy, Sean D ^a  

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EID: 0041836028     PISSN: 00178063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (3)

1. At its most general level, "biotechnology" concerns techniques for using the properties of living things to make products or services. These techniques include selecting natural strains of organisms that carry desirable traits; making hybrids by fusing cells from different parental sources; using chemicals and radiation to create mutant strains; or genetically engineering plants, animals, and microorganisms to produce specific phenotypic characteristics. See HARNESSING BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY (Michael R. Ladisch & Arindam Bose eds., 1992). The principal focus of this Article is on recent, controversial developments in biotechnology relating to genetic engineering.
2. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION, UNITED NATIONS, THE STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD 1999, 10-11 (1999).
3. UNITED NATIONS POPULATION FUND, THE STATE OF WORLD POPULATION 1998, 2-3, fig. 1 (1998).