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BusinessGreen.com Staff, BusinessGreen , Friday 3 April 2009 at 14:49:00 Is there a GM campaign against Franken-batteries in the offing? It might sound like something out of a science fiction film, but researchers at MIT reckon they have developed a way of making batteries from genetically engineered viruses that promises... (link)

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