Glowing Plants on the Horizon—Cool or Scary?


The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting story about the rise of the glowing plant. Yes, those who donated to a project engineered by Stanford graduates to create genetically-modified, glow-in-the-dark plants will soon be one in the mail as a token of appreciation. The paper says while the project has its fans, there are an equal number of people worried that “decades-old regulations are failing to keep pace with 21st century innovations in genetic engineering.” The glowing plants, for example, are exempt for regulation by the FDA, the EPA and the USDA.

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News

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