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Brave new world?

5 April 2003

Colin Tudge is visiting research fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics. His book So Shall We Reap, about world agriculture and the role of science within it, will be published by Penguin in September

Christopher Leaver is at the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford

Anthony Trewavas is at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh

Dear Christopher and Anthony,

Some of the nicest people I know in science (and most scientists are nice) are manipulators of DNA – “genetic engineers”.…

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