... they also impact beneficial insects directly, songbirds indirectly, and human beings through runoff into water reservoirs. Biotechnologists may have a better solution: engineered corn that itself produces a natural pesticide. This eliminates the indiscriminate impact of spraying the toxin. Geneticists engineer the corn with a gene from the soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis; hence it is called "Bt-- corn." The inserted gene encodes an insecticidal protein that is now expressed throughout ... been discussed alongside the benefits. "Supporters say that biotechnology is a tool that all...

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