Conventional farming methods using conventional fertilisers are adding active nitrogen to the soil, which tends to move to other places - lakes, rivers, seas, the air.

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One example: The gene that makes the Epogen protein is expressed in only a few scattered tissues and is hard to detect by conventional gene-finding methods, which discover genes not by looking at DNA but by examining the RNA messengers that ferry genetic code between the DNA itself and the cellular machinery that make proteins.

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That history might be a little unsettling to some, but these are conventional breeding methods, not GE.

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But the study's authors, Professor Edzard Ernst and Dr Max Pittler from the University of Exeter warned that more research needs to be done to establish whether acupuncture or conventional pain relief methods were more effective.

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More conventional methods of share-buying also seem to be thriving.

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The LUMIX FH8 also allows users to enjoy the new flexibility of USB charging or conventional AC adapter charging methods.

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If anything, they are likely to be safer, because the techniques used to make them are far more precise and predictable than older, conventional methods of genetic improvement.

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Mastering the at work state of mind promises breakthrough success for marketers, exchanging the mediocre performance of conventional methods for the high performance of programs radically reset to the way people really live, work, dream and prosper.

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They were valuable in steadying the heart-beat, and in providing clues to the cause of the heart disease, which might then be treated by conventional methods.

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