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How a new biotech rule will foster distrust with the public and impede progress in science

Written by Maywa Montenegro, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis

Does CRISPR really make it easier for all scientists to produce gene edited crops and animals?Maywa Montenegro, CC BY-SA

In May, federal regulators finalized a new biotechnology policy that will bring sweeping changes to the U.S. food system. Dubbed “SECURE,”the rule revises U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations over genetically...

How a new biotech rule will foster distrust with the public and impede progress in science

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