The next front in the GMO war: Synthetic biology

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By Nathanael JohnsonJun 5, 2014, 6:13 pm35 pts
The New York Times recently revealed that some soap companies were replacing the palm oil in their products with a substitute made by yeast. The controversial part is that the yeast are genetically altered — they’re the product of a new discipline known as synthetic biology. I got a crash course in…

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