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Published online 7 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021001-14
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Genes improve green cleaning
Engineered organisms could make toxic clean-ups safer and speedier.
Researchers have created a plant that safely takes up the toxic element arsenic, and hope to use it to restore soils that are too contaminated for human use. Genetic techniques could also produce new biological tools to absorb other chemical pollutants, they say.
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