Crop plants like corn and tobacco can now be programmed with gene-splicing techniques to produce precious pharmaceuticals.

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But biopharming's great promise lies in the ability of gene-splicing techniques to make old plants do new things.

FORBES: Food Fight

The modern hunt for disease-causing genes began in the early 1980s with the advent of new gene-splicing methods.

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The movie is set in the near future, where time has replaced money as currency, and no one gets older than twenty-five (the secret is in the gene-splicing).

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