Critics and advocates of genetic engineering say that the apple could be a turning point in the nation's highly polarizing debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

基因工程的批评家们与支持者们均表示，美国国内在转基因生物的争论上，观点已呈两极化，“北极苹果”的试售可能会是这一局面的转折点。

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Critics and advocates of genetic 2 engineering say that the apple could be a turning point in the nation's highly polarizing debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

基因工程的批评家们与支持者们均表示，美国国内在转基因生物的争论上，观点已呈两极化，“北极苹果”的试售可能会是这一局面的转折点。

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Genetic engineering techniques bypass crossbreeding barriers between species to enable gene transfer between widely differing organisms.

遗传工程可突破物种间的杂交繁殖障碍，使基因在自然界不同物种间迁移。

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At first Amgen tried using genetic engineering to create organisms that would extract oil from shale, man-made proteins that would make chickens grow faster and new specialty chemicals such as a cloned indigo, a substitute for the natural dye used to color blue jeans.

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Voigt is at the forefront of a group of young researchers working to deliver on the profound promise of genetic engineering: Rebuilding living organisms to fight disease, make bio-fuels and solve industrial problems.

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One worry is that the new science of synthetic biology, the souped-up form of genetic engineering that involves radically modifying organisms or even someday designing them from scratch, is both more promising and more dangerous that the technology that has been around for two decades and gave birth to Amgen, Genencor, and Monsanto.

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