Global Technology – March 2015

Next, let's focus on this month's most important advances in technology.

Scientists from Yale have devised a way to ensure that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be safely confined in the environment, overcoming a major obstacle to widespread use of GMOs in agriculture, energy production, waste management, and medicine.

Their demonstration involved rewriting the DNA of a strain of bacteria so that it requires the presence of a special synthetic amino acid that does not exist in nature to activate genes essential.....