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Engineering organisms for release

Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has produced unexpectedly cautious proposals for the regulation of the release of engineered organisms into the environment, but they are none the worse for that.

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Engineering organisms for release. Nature 340, 81–82 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/340081a0

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