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  • The 21st century will see gene "pharmers," for instance.

    Uncovering Secrets, Big And Small 2008

  • In each episode, using state of the art gizmos and plain old human insight, dashingly photogenic botanists will hunt down horticultural deviants: orchid thieves; rogue pharmers hired by Iran to breach America's food security; identity theft rings hacking into the wireless networks of major retail stores using outdoor fake shrubbery; guerrilla gardeners; Ken Smith and many others.

    Cacti Crime 2008

  • Raddol and Tinquesta were watching her like pharmers waiting for their nuke to melt down.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • At China Dialogue, an environmental website, pharmers and their mutant kernels are under scrutiny.

    Jan McGirk: Mexico's Mutant Kernels Ripen After GM Corn Ban Reversed 2010

  • On Earth, police or lawyers could protect small pharmers.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • At China Dialogue, an environmental website, pharmers and their mutant kernels are under scrutiny.

    Jan McGirk: Mexico's Mutant Kernels Ripen After GM Corn Ban Reversed 2010

  • The world is so unkind to pharmaceutical agriculture that some pharmers have gone underground to conduct their Doctor Moreauvian experiments.

    Cave Pharming 2007

  • The world is so unkind to pharmaceutical agriculture that some pharmers have gone underground to conduct their Doctor Moreauvian experiments.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • So when, in 1987, researchers slipped a human gene into mice so that they produced a human protein in their milk, "molecular pharmers" saw their chance: Researchers at Tufts and the Genzyme Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., engineered goats to produce tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA), a protein that dissolves blood clots and extends the lives of cardiac patients.

    Barnyard Bioengineers 2008

  • The molecular pharmers don't expect that to be a problem.

    Barnyard Bioengineers 2008

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