We can take the genes from fish that make them resistant to cold and insert them into a strawberry that will then grow better in cold conditions.

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In an e-mail exchange, I noted that higher-level Scientologists are supposed to be free of neuroses and allergies, and resistant to the common cold.

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They hope, for example, to produce drought-resistant and cold-resistant plants, in order to extend the range over which they can be planted.

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Analysts turned a cold shoulder as well, resistant, McMahon says, to acknowledge anything that contradicted their earlier work.

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