Transgenic risk
a project to develop peas with pest-resistance induced through genetic changes has been given up after tests on mice showed allergic lung damage.
Scientists at Australia's Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation had taken a gene from the bean plant and transferred it into peas. The gene expresses a protein
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