GM crops and gender issues
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As new biotechnologies are developed, the parallels with GM crops are often drawn. In this paper, I consider GM animals and contrast them with GM crops. I use a systems of innovation perspective to consider innovation, product markets and regulatory systems and suggest that whilst there are some parallels between GM crops and animals there are also clear differences. There are differences in th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Biotechnology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1087-0156,1546-1696
DOI: 10.1038/nbt0510-404