Despite the giant gap in the public mind between organic farming, which bans artificial pesticides and fertilizers, and gene modification, the couple was never exactly star-crossed.

FORBES: Green Genes

Use of highly targeted gene-modification tricks comes at a fortuitous time.

FORBES: A Whole New Crop

The US researchers, reported Science magazine, used genetic modification techniques to knock out a mouse gene which is responsible for keeping the immune system in check so that it does not launch attacks on itself.

BBC: Body may cause lethal heart weakness