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Hazardous CaMV promoter?

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In your account (January 2000) of our prepublication manuscript1, you quote the criticisms but ignore completely our full rebuttal, which was posted on the web last November2.

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  2. Department of Biological Sciences Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA , UK

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Cummins, J., Ho, MW. & Ryan, A. Hazardous CaMV promoter?. Nat Biotechnol 18, 363 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/74331

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