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‘Gene deleting’ tool could lead to safer GM crops

SciDev.Net

Posted: Feb 22, 2007

Scientists from China and the United States have devised a technique that could prevent the flow of transgenic genes into non-biotech crops — and might end the long-standing debate on terminator genes.

The development could free poor farmers from dependence on companies that sell genetically modified (GM) seeds, suggest the researchers.

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