douglas spruce Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:48:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Douglas Spruce and Firefly Genes Mix for Non-Electric (But Weird) Christmas Glow https://www.greenoptimistic.com/douglas-spruce-and-firefly-genes-mix-for-non-electric-but-weird-christmas-glow-20121213/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/douglas-spruce-and-firefly-genes-mix-for-non-electric-but-weird-christmas-glow-20121213/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:47:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=29751 Genetic engineering, of course, is nothing new. If you include cross-breeding and crop segregation, then the practice is actually millenniums old. Such engineering, whether by artificial selection or actual gene splicing, has resulted in practical applications, such as disease-resistant crops. Otherwise, the changes might be more aesthetic, such as in 1986, when geneticists spliced the […]

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