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Why the omega-3 piggy should go to market

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We are writing in response to the correspondence by Autumn Fiester entitled “Why the omega-3 piggy should not go to market” in your December issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 24, 1472–1473, 2006). We feel that her critique of our paper on the transgenic omega-3 pig1 ignored the supporting evidence and facts for this technology, resulting in several erroneous conceptions and statements.

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