Fighting GM crop vandalism with a government-protected research site

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Genetically modified (GM) crops have been a source of great controversyโ€”particularly in Europeโ€”but acts of vandalism and associated security costs have made scientific evidence about the health and ecological impacts of those crops hard to come by. A Swiss government-protected field site dedicated for use in GM crop studies could serve as an example to other European countries interested in pursuing crop biotechnology, according to an article published in Trends in Biotechnology, a Cell Press publication, on February 28.

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