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Plants May Be Able To Correct Mutated Genes

Posted by timothy on from the early-stages dept.

ddutt writes "NY Times is running a story that talks of an exciting new discovery, which, if confirmed, could represent an unprecedented exception to Mendel's laws of inheritance. The discovery involves.. 'plants that possess a corrected version of a defective gene inherited from both their parents, as if some handy backup copy with the right version had been made in the grandparents' generation or earlier.'"

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  1. Finally. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Finally some INTERESTING news on Slashdot. Fuck was today ever boring.

  2. Yeah... by bigtallmofo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But what if your name's not Gene?

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    I'm a big tall mofo.