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It allows the creation of parts in shapes that conventional techniques cannot achieve, resulting in new, much more efficient designs in aircraft wings or heat exchangers, for example.
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Souped-up hybrid crops, such as maize, bred through conventional techniques rather than high-tech genetic engineering, do not keep their desired properties from one generation to the next because of natural genetic shuffling.
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As a result, field trials with these plants are 10 to 20 times as expensive as experiments with virtually identical plants modified with less precise, conventional techniques, so only a minuscule fraction of potentially important plants developed in university and corporate laboratories ever make it into field trials.
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