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The bright yellow rice designed to fight deficiency

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Golden rice is entirely engineered to naturally produce beta-carotene, significantly boosting its nutritional profile. By splicing in highly specific genes from completely different organisms, researchers created a bright yellow crop deliberately designed to prevent massive dietary deficiencies. It is an aggressive, high-tech upgrade to a remarkably boring grain.

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