The Endless Debate Over Genetic Engineering
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By Richard Schiffman Last month a popular do-gooder website featured a curious headline: "400 Farmers Destroy Life-Saving Rice Crops, and That's a Good Thing." The story went on to describe how a mob in the Philippines ? not farmers, as the headline wrongly claimed, but a motley group of city kids and political activists ? trampled a test plot of Golden Rice, a blazingly yellow, genetically modified variety that contains snippets of DNA extracted from maize and a bacterium. ...
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New Methods Of Enhancing Efficiency Of Genetic Engineering In Mice Rats
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Two new gene modification methods have been developed: lsODN (long single-stranded oligodeoxynucleotide) and 2H2OP (two-hit two-oligo with plasmid).