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THE DRUG, KNOWN AS ARTEMISININ: M. C. Chang and Keasling, 2006.

SINCE 2001, DREW ENDY AND THOMAS KNIGHT OF MIT HAVE BEEN BUILDING: Endy, 2005.

GEORGE CHURCH AND HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE DRAWN UP A LIST: Forster and Church, 2006.

ALBERT LIBCHABER TOOK AN EVEN SIMPLER APPROACH: Noireaux et al., 2005.

“BIOTECH HAS ALREADY IGNITED WORLDWIDE PROTESTS”: quoted in ETC Group, 2006.

THEY FOUND THAT THE BACTERIA RAPIDLY DISAPPEARED: Bogosian and Kane, 1991; Heitkamp et al., 1993.

STUDIES SUGGEST THAT EVEN IF AN ALIEN GENE GAVE BACTERIA A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: Nielsen and Townsend, 2004.

THE INCIDENCE OF TYPE 2 DIABETES HAS DOUBLED: Statistics from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Diabetes Data & Trends,” http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/prev/national/figpersons.htm; accessed June 27, 2007.

CASES OF DIABETES WORLDWIDE HAVE INCREASED TENFOLD: World Health Organization, Media Centre, “Diabetes,” http://www.who/int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en/’ accessed June 27, 2007.

E. COLI HAS PROVIDED INSULIN: Eli Lilly Company, “Humulin,” http://www.lillydiabetes.com/product/humulin_family.jsp?reqNavId=5.3; accessed June 27, 2007.

THAT SUGAR COMES INCREASINGLY FROM HIGH-FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP: Crabb and Shetty, 1999.

THE COMPANY HAD TO PAY $50 MILLION TO SETTLE CHARGES: Nordenberg, 1999.

WE MUST RESIST EMPTY FEAR AND EMPTY HYPE: Avise, 2004.

“THE AFFLUENT NATIONS CAN AFFORD”: Borlaug, 2000, p. 489.

GOLDEN RICE, A STRAIN OF RICE ENGINEERED: Babili and Beyer, 2005.

“THIS RICE COULD SAVE A MILLION KIDS A YEAR”: Nash, 2000.

“IN FIGHTING AGAINST ‘GOLDEN RICE’ REACHING THE POOR”: Potrykus, 2001, p. 1160.

IT MAY NOT BRING MUCH BENEFIT AT ALL: Krawinkel, 2007.

VITAMIN A HAS TO BE CONSUMED ALONG WITH DIETARY FAT: Schnapp and Schiermeier, 2001.

ABOUT 80 PERCENT OF ALL THE TRANSGENIC CROPS: Service, 2007.

STUDIES INDICATED THAT FARMERS WHO GREW THE TRANSGENIC CROPS: Raney, 2006.

FARMERS BEGAN TO NOTICE HORSEWEED AND MORNING GLORY: Owen and Zelaya, 2005.

AND ONCE THE WEEDS EVOLVED THEIR RESISTANCE: Zelaya, Owen, and VanGessel, 2007.

THEY HAD ENGINEERED PLANTS WITH GENES THAT MAKE THEM RESISTANT: Behrens et al., 2007.

FARMERS CAN RESORT TO OLD-FASHIONED METHODS: Sandermann, 2006.

“WE CAN NOW TRANSFORM THAT EVOLUTIONARY TREE”: quoted in Jackson and Stich, 1979, p. 97.

THE MIT BIOLOGIST JONATHAN KING DECLARED: quoted in Hall, 2002, p. 51.

“THE GENETIC STRUCTURES OF LIVING BEINGS”: Silver, 2006, p. 287.

“LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH GRASS”: Gen. 1:11-24 (King James version).

“THOU SHALT NOT LET THY CATTLE”: Lev. 19:19 (King James version).

“NEITHER SHALT THOU LIE”: Lev. 18:23 (King James version).

“USING HUMAN PROCREATION”: Jones, 2006.

“REPUGNANCE MAY BE THE ONLY VOICE LEFT”: Kass and Wilson, 1998, p. 19.

PRESIDENT BUSH CALLED FOR A BAN: Bush, 2006.

“RESPECT FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND THE INTEGRITY OF THE HUMAN SPECIES”: U.S. Congress, 2005.

“A THING EITHER IS OR IS NOT A WHOLE HUMAN BEING”: George and Gomez-Lobo, 2005, p. 202.

E. COLI STARVES AND SUFFERS: Chou, 2007.

EACH KIND HAS ITS OWN ESSENCE: Gelman, 2004.

“THE THING IS AN ABOMINATION”: Wells, 1896.

CONSIDER A GENE CALLED MICROCEPHALIN: Evans et al., 2006.

“IN A WORLD WHOSE ONCE-GIVEN NATURAL BOUNDARIES”: Kass, 1997.

AND SOME CHIMERAS WILL PROBABLY BE BANNED: Scott, 2006.

ELEVEN: N EQUALS 1

“BUT ITS DOMAIN HAS BEEN LIMITED”: Lederberg, 1963.

“INVASION FROM MARS? MICROBES!”: Los Angeles Examiner, March 20, 1960.

“THESE QUESTIONS MIGHT BE ANSWERED IN TWO WAYS”: Lederberg, 1963.

“WE CAN DEFER OUR CONCERN”: Lederberg, 1960, p. 394.

NASA AGREED: Dick, 1998.

“THAT’S THE BALL GAME”: quoted in Dick and Strick, 2004.

“WE CAN NO LONGER BE CONFIDENT”: quoted in McElheny, 1976.

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY BLURS INTO ASTROBIOLOGY: Benner, Ricardo, and Carrigan, 2004.

PLANETS MAY TRADE BITS OF THEMSELVES: Gladman et al., 2005; Warmflash and Weiss, 2005.

THE MOST EXTREME FORM OF PANSPERMIA: Napier, 2004.

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