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Genetically modified plants: questions and answers
What can and should genetic technologies be used for?
James Turner is a geneticist working on sex chromosomes. He discovered how sex chromosome abnormalities cause infertility, and devised stem cell-based therapies to restore reproduction in these conditions. He also…
Bradley Cairns received his B.S. (Honors) in Chemistry from Lewis and Clark College, his PhD in Cell Biology from Stanford University, and conducted his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School (Genetics). He is now Professor …
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