Rice, Corn and China's New Genetic Attraction

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(Caixin Online) Panic spread across China after a rumor on the Internet recently claimed half of all men in southern Guangxi Autonomous Region who ate genetically modified (GM) corn could not father children.

Part of the rumor was indeed correct: A study by researchers at Guangxi Medical University's Department of Andrology had found abnormalities in semen samples from more than 56 percent of about 200 young men attending a local university.