The Daily Egyptian is published by the students of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and TWThF during the summer semester except during vacations and exam weeks. Daily Egyptian online is uploaded at noon. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald studies up at SIUC Visit may bring potential for advanced research Illinois Sen. Peter Fitzgerald used his one-day stop at SIUC to do some homework. The freshman Republican senator, who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, visited the SIUC Soybean Research Center Wednesday to learn about genetic modification, which is a controversial issue not only in the Southern Illinois region, but throughout the nation.
More work needs to be done to ensure food safety.
Some scientists speculate that genetically modified organisms that are altered for certain targeted attributes, such as resistance to disease and insects, could produce reactions that lead to fatal diseases. This document may be distributed electronically for personal use only, provided it is distributed in its entirety and includes this notice. We encourage you to create links to our pages and ask that you do not duplicate our pages on your own site. Nothing from the Daily Egyptian can be reprinted without the express written permission of the Daily Egyptian.