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GM organisms reliant on artificial compounds for survival created - C C - Jan 30, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/genetically-recoded-organisms-artificial-compounds EXCERPT: In a drive to improve the environmental safety of genetically modified organisms, scientists have created the first GM microbes that can only survive in the presence of designer compounds not found in nature. The work represents a major step towards the creation of GM lifeforms that are completely reconfigured to perform an important job and then die without trace when their task is done....