Genetically Modified Joe

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One day soon, coffee beans might be grown free of caffeine. One biotech company hopes to genetically modify the plant so that the beans won’t need to be stripped of caffeine, because they won’t be making it to begin with. “The DNA Files” producer Julie Grant reports.

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