Tuesday, March 29, 2005

The New York Times - Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene

The New York Times - Startling Scientists, Plant Fixes Its Flawed Gene:
"In a startling discovery, geneticists at Purdue University say they have found 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."