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This man, this "lunatic farmer," doesn't use any pesticides, herbicides, or genetically modified seeds.
He went through this old-growth forest and sat up beside this 400-year-old culturally modified tree and went to sleep.
On top of that, we selected some strategic points reminded of this idea of the gates and connecting them by straight lines, and this modified this initial pattern.
I went even further by seeing if I could use a head-mounted display, the Oculus Rift, as modified by Fighting Walrus, to have an immersive experience controlling the drone.
We'd seen that users had actually modified it.
We also saw that our users had modified it in other ways.
The mirror allows that, but the mirror is not tainted, is not modified, is not altered by those images.
It's also the way in which these words are arranged, the way these words are modified and arranged.
Biologists should avoid release of potentially devastating genetically modified pathogens.
So at North Carolina State University, we challenged our students to come up with a simple solution, and this is what they came up with: a simple, modified screw auger that can move the waste up from the pit and into a collecting drum, and now the pit worker doesn't have to go down into the pit.
In 1991, a 50-year agreement was entered into that stops any exploitation in Antarctica, and this agreement could be altered, changed, modified, or even abandoned starting in the year 2041.
When I was looking through my London journal and scrapbook from my London semester abroad 16 years ago, I came across this modified quote from Toni Morrison's book, "Paradise."
Now, genetic modification is not new; virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified in some manner.
And so what we found is that by analyzing these artifacts, we can actually recover sound using a modified version of our algorithm.
A black hole is an object so dense that space and time around it are inescapably modified, warped into an infinite sink.
If a typical stellar-mass black hole were to pass in the region of Neptune, the orbit of the Earth would be considerably modified, with dire results.
I'm sure some of you are thinking, "By biotic application, does she mean she's going to make genetically modified crops?"
All of the crops that we eat today, wheat, rice and maize, are highly genetically modified from their ancestors, but we don't consider them GM because they're being produced by conventional breeding.
The genes that are modified inside these tumor cells can enable and encode for new and unimagined modes of survival, allowing the cancer cell to live through even our best chemotherapy treatments.
They're known on Earth as GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, and we rely on them to feed all the mouths of human civilization.
This humble mustard weed has been modified so that if you change it in one way, you get broccoli.
Now, MIT engineers have modified wifi so we can seamlessly connect and collect our vital signs from our connected rings and smart mattresses.
The idea behind the flute, of just pushing air through tubes to make a sound, was eventually modified to create the first organ more than 2,000 years ago.
She was born a genetically modified designer baby with numerous upgrades.
Researchers in China just a few months ago reported the creation of genetically modified human embryos.
They passed a new law allowing the creation of genetically modified humans with the noble goal of trying to prevent a rare kind of genetic disease.
So depending on the decisions we make in the next few months, the next year or so, if designer baby number one is born, within a few decades, there could well be millions of genetically modified humans.
And there's a difference there too, because if we, you in the audience, or I, if we decide to have a designer baby, then their children will also be genetically modified, and so on, because it's heritable.
We should not allow creating genetically modified people, because it's just too dangerous and too unpredictable.
Eventually, we'll move to a modified Mars time, which is what we're working now.
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