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1. Can we rehabilitate the idea of GMOs?
By Sarah Zhang in the Atlantic
By Sarah Bermeo at the Brookings Institution
3. What would it mean for America’s immigration police to become an intelligence agency?
By Betsy Woodruff in the Daily Beast
4. This is why the Midwest is becoming America’s new biotech hub.
By Nick Fouriezos in Ozy
5. Diaspora workers already send money home. Could they send knowledge, too?
By Ronit Avni at the World Economic Forum

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