2000 News provides news weekly news highlights about Science. Unexplained whale beachings news links teaching Incentive to participate in GM crop trials Farmers in England are being paid almost three times the market value to participate in this year's round of farm scale trials of GM crops. The money is to encourage participation and to compensate participating farmers for any inconvenience they will experience through changes in their management practices during the trials.
Field trials are necessary to be able to measure the potential effects of growing such crops.
00.03.25 Fruit fly genome map completed Many scientists from many countries, from both industry and academia have collaborated to complete genome of Drosophila melanogaster , the fruit fly. The results have just been published in the journal Science . Because of its short lifecycle, the fruit fly has been a popular model in the lab for studying how traits, such as appearance, are coded in genes. For example, it was early work on fruit flies that lead to the discovery that genes are found on long strings of genetic material called chromosomes. Such an overlap holds interesting promise into potential medical applications of fruit fly genetic research.