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GMO debate: inconclusive
In his Foreword to my book Haldane’s Daedalus Revisited, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg (1995) correctly emphasized the difficulty of making accurate scientific predictions. Nevertheless, I agree with M. S. Swaminathan (2012) that the current concerns of biosafety will soon give way to an appreciation of the potential benefits of the new genetics including the GMO technology. I have reviewed t...
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Received: 13 August 2013; accepted: 13 August 2013; published online: 20 August 2013. Citation: Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office (2013) Retraction: GMO debate: inconclusive. Front. Genet. 4:169. doi: 10.3389/fgene. 2013.00169 This article was submitted to Plant Genetics and Genomics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics. Copyright © 2013 Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office. T...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Genetics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-8021
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00123