Oops. The journal Nature says it shouldn’t have published a report about genetically engineered corn leaking exotic genes into traditional races of the crop in Mexico.
In the Nov. 29, 2001, edition of the prestigious journal, David Quist and Ignacio H. Chapela of the University of California, Berkeley reported that genes artificially inserted into commercial crops wended their way into native maize as well (SN: 12/1/01, p.
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