The green frontierA new research tool for molecular genetics, hailed as the most important technology since the polymerase chain reaction in the early 1980s, is transforming research across the medical and biological sciences. Agriculture, the environment and people will be major beneficiaries as RNAi provides researchers with non-chemical ways of controlling pests and disease, increasing yields and delivering essential foods.
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