New GM rice 'could solve food crisis'
Scientists claim that a new strain of genetically-modified (GM) rice, which could boost yields by up to 35 per cent may solve the world's impending food crisis, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper. The GM rice, which has already been tested in China, Korea and Chile, was announced...
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Don't believe everything you read in the newspapers
by Juliet Tizzard
Those people who read a particular news story in the Times last week and then went on to read it on BBC News online, could be forgiven for being rather confused. For the story in question - on the safety of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) - was reported in such a different...