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Health

Insulin grown in plants gets human tests

Safflower plants have been engineered to produce insulin – it is hoped they will provide a cheaper source of the hormone for people with diabetes

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Life

Genetics: Top 10 articles from 2008

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Super-biofuel cooked up by bacterial brewers

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Super-biofuel cooked up by bacterial brewers

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Health

'Invisible' transplant organs now in sight

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Invention: Excrement antibiotic

Health

Invention: Excrement antibiotic

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Earth

Finding the facts about genetic modification

Opinion

GM cotton in the clear over farmer suicides

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GM cotton in the clear over farmer suicides

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Comment: Why Prince Charles is right – and wrong on GM

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Can a cow hormone help save the environment?

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Can a cow hormone help save the environment?

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Drought-resistant wheat beats Australian heat

Genetically modified wheat offers bigger yields in dry conditions, but will its abilities overcome aversions to the technology?

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Life

Synthetic biology: Rewriting the code for life

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Life

Monkey engineered to develop Huntington's disease

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'Self-digesting' biofuel plants could ease food crisis

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Life

Review: What is Life? by Ed Regis

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