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Ideas and links for obtaining a recent (less than 6 months old) article from the popular press (newspaper or magazine) and a peer reviewed journal article on the same or similar topic are included. Advice on how to clearly summarize each article in is also achieved.

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Who conducted the research?
What methods were used?
What conclusions were reached?
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Hi

I have found two articles from agricultural biotechnology that you may find useful... here is the url for one from the popular press:
http://www.vegsource.com/articles/gmo_feed_myth.htm

and another from peer-reviewed literature:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/altieri.html

These are certainly two interesting articles, with similar focus but some glaring differences in approach. I hope you managed to read through all of both of them and gain some understanding of the heady issue of biotechnology in agriculture. This is a topic that has recently been of utmost importance to many biologists, both those involved in biotech and those in conservation and environmental science.

In answer to your specific questions, I will try to give you some input about each one separately.

a) It struck me right away that Altieri's paper was far ...

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