Clashes in Biology: Genetically Modified Organisms?

Authors

  • Miguel Ángel Quesada Felice Spain

Abstract

To discuss this matter as important as it is delicate, where biology has a shared voice with other disciplines and human conditions, we are fortunate to have the reasoned opinion of two colleagues from the Faculty of Sciences who open a necessary debate. It is a luxury to read arguments that have matured within a scientific center, full of clean dialectic and far from demagoguery. Surely your opinion (the reader’s) will come out consolidated after reading this duel between gentlemen of science.

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Published

2016-06-19

How to Cite

Quesada Felice, M. Ángel. (2016). Clashes in Biology: Genetically Modified Organisms?. Encuentros En La Biología, 9(158), 90–96. Retrieved from https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/17959

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Encuentros con las novedades