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monsanto's plan to help the honeybee

http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/monsanto.beesx299.jpg In 2011 Monsanto, the maker of herbicides and genetically engineered seeds, bought an Israeli company called Beeologics, which had developed an RNA interference technology that can be fed to bees through sugar water. The idea is that when a nurse bee spits this sugar water into each cell of a honeycomb where a queen […]

Posted: December 4 2015