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September 2013's selection of notable quotes


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MEDIUM RARE: Produced from stem cells extracted
from cow muscles, the world’s first artificial beef burger
made its debut in London in early August.
DAVID PARRY/PA WIRE

Mark Post, researcher at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, at the London press conference where he served up a sample of the world’s first lab-grown burger (August 5)

Jesse Jaynes, a Tuskegee University biologist who genetically engineers food plants for increased nutritional value and disease resistance (The New York Times, July 27)

—University of California, Berkeley, researcher Solomon Hsiang, commenting on his recently published study that reported a rise in violence as temperatures increase and precipitation
fluctuates more widely (The Scientist, August 1)

—Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in France, bemoaning the publication of plans for a new round of studies to explore the ability of deadly H7N9 flu to mutate into more virulent and transmissible forms in mammals (The Scientist, August ...

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