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To: Tribune7
This is the important part:

I would respectfully disagree. This is the important part:

Biotechnology has so far had its greatest impact in medicine. Its application in making recombinant vaccines and recombinant insulin for treating diabetes has been a great success.

In agriculture, a number of the applications of biotechnology in clonal micro-propagation of plants have been successful. Propagation of seedlings for re-forestation, fruit trees, and floriculture has been a tremendous contribution. The problems have come in its application to make transgenic food items. The announcement by a company regarding its capability to produce seeds containing terminator genes caused quite a negative stir against biotechnology by many people in Africa.


72 posted on 12/08/2004 6:35:03 PM PST by DBeers
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To: DBeers
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I think you're looking at a different article.

74 posted on 12/08/2004 6:51:28 PM PST by Tribune7
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